"Fascinating." Scientists make jaw-dropping observation while studying glaciers in Antarctica: 'Ice piracy' first appeared on ...

With blankets, snow machines, and limited funding, a small team of scientists is testing a desperate plan to slow the collapse of one of China’s most vulnerable glaciers.

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

"We could hope that all the predictions are wrong, but we're scientists, so that didn't make sense." Coastal residents face ...

Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. No matter where you live, ...

The glaciers have been receding during most of the last 150 years they have been studied since the days of John Muir’s ...

Across Antarctica, Greenland, and other polar areas, icy glaciers cover large areas of land and extend into the sea. These glaciers shrink and grow with the seasons. Jonathan Bamber of the University ...