A new study reveals that melting Antarctic sea ice could release massive amounts of trapped carbon dioxide, potentially ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

The latest Red List of Threatened Species assessment released Friday shows that more than a quarter of all animals, plants ...

Buried Louisiana marshes show North America, not Antarctica, fueled the world’s dramatic sea level surge 9,000 years ago.

Melting sea ice is a global issue with far-reaching consequences. As the Arctic and Antarctic are losing ice faster than expected, experts are noticing damaging ripple effects. Sea ice forms on the ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red ...

Arctic seals and many birds are in danger as ice melts and forests disappear. Green sea turtles show recovery.