The Trump administration and Congress, seeking to improve security, have approved funding for eight icebreakers and are ...

A landslide in Greenland caused a giant wave and a mysterious 92-second seismic hum that traveled around the planet for nine ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

In a paradox of global warming, thawing ice isn’t making Arctic waters easier to navigate. It makes them more dangerous.