Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

Volunteers from New Zealand to the United States are helping scientists document what will happen to coastal communities as climate change melts the polar ice caps and sea levels rise.

"global warming," has invoked mental images of shrinking ice caps and desperate polar bears. And the Arctic is indeed warming rapidly - at three to four times the global average. With that in mind ...

A 2022 study proposed that Earth-like exoplanets in other solar systems would rarely develop polar ice caps, further supporting the idea that our current climate is an anomaly. With Arctic and ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has reached a historic milestone with the Fram2 mission, as astronauts captured the first-ever video of ...

Last month was extreme: Temperatures in parts of the Arctic spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its lowest level ever recorded for ...

The polar ice caps are melting, and it is, to put it mildly, a problem. Melting glaciers have several environmental and ecological ramifications; those implications include rising sea levels and ...

and it’s important for transport routes with the melting of the Arctic,” Kristian Nielsen said. The effort and expense of maintaining a network of miles of tunnels in the ice cap was a ...

They take water and nutrients from the air. Scientists are worried about how fast climate change is melting the polar ice caps. From 1992 to 2022, the planet's frozen poles lost 7,560 billion ...