A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Satellite observations have revealed that sea ice in the Arctic is once again hovering near record lows for this time of year ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

Icebergs and cruises may seem like uneasy companions, but at 5am on board Discovery Princess, nobody seems particularly ...

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

Melting glaciers may be setting off volcanoes worldwide, triggering eruptions and possibly accelerating climate change.

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

It changed everything. A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

Hundreds of ice fishermen refused rescue while drifting out to sea. Authorities reported that 374 anglers stranded on a drifting slab of sea ice declined to be rescued because they did not want to ...