Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southernmost point of our planet, remains one of the most mysterious and unexplored places on Earth. Spanning over 14 million square kilometers, Antarctica is ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time.

Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from ...