New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

Ten years ago, policymakers and nation states set the world’s most important climate goal: limiting planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). If the Earth could stay below ...

Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Scientists are discovering more ways global warming is affecting the planet. The days are getting longer as global temperatures continue to rise, new research shows. As ice sheets at the Earth's poles ...

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate warms, which is likely to speed ice loss and global sea level rise. Crevasses ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...