Because of an unstable polar vortex, experts have projected record low levels of Arctic sea ice for the coming winter.

The SSMIS data are used as input for this NSIDC-produced data set, which will therefore stop processing after 31 July 2025.

A top scientist at the British Antarctic Survey recently told the Guardian that she believes we may have already crossed a ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

During that period, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of North America as far south as present-day Pennsylvania, began to retreat. As the ice melted, enormous volumes of water ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating volcanic eruptions.

At the time, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which stretched over North America as far south as Pennsylvania, started to recede. Melting ice flooded into the oceans, and sea levels worldwide rose by ...

As the weight of the Laurentide Ice Sheet was redistributed around the planet, parts of North America began to bounce back up.

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

The new scenario suggests that the event began with modest melting of the Laurentide ice sheet over North America, which contributed about 10 feet of sea level rise. That was followed by more dramatic ...

The ice has finally all melted, barring any late-winter freezes. With that, we begin the long-awaited transition to spring. There was a time, not long ago, when the warming air of summer would not ...