Now a recent study in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that such a tipping point may indeed exist. As it turns out, scientists have misunderstood a key aspect of the physical process behind the ...

When strong winter storms hit, many people stay safe and warm indoors until the poor weather has cleared up. If you need to go out, however, and you don’t have any rock salt for melting the ice that’s ...

The understanding of ocean mechanisms in the Arctic is currently experiencing a real turning point. Research conducted by the ...

Researchers believe that melting ice and snow shifted the true summit of the iconic peak from a frozen ridge to a pile of ...

In the dark and cold months of winter, the last thing you want to do is shovel ice and snow from your driveway. We hear ya! While there are plenty of clever uses for salt, including fixing slippery ...

(CNN) — One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting ...

If you've ever built a sandcastle on the beach, you've seen how sea water in the sand can quickly undermine the castle. A new study by the British Antarctic Survey concludes warmer seawater may work ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, ...

How activists and artists across the world are challenging popular, generalised climate memes, such as those of melting and ...