The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

Scientists link Antarctic record sea ice loss to an unexplained spike in ocean salt levels, raising concerns about ocean stability.

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

The Polar Vortex,an atmospheric phenomenon that shapes our winter weather,has been gaining attention as it undergoes changes ...

New research reveals the Arctic Ocean was never sealed by a massive ice shelf, but instead experienced 750,000 years of ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of ...

Antarctic sea ice began to change rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Since then it has remained well below the long-term average.

For decades, we've heard the same urgent warnings,glaciers melting, Arctic ice disappearing, sea levels rising,all blamed on ...

When we speak of melting ice, we often picture the Arctic or the Antarctic. But the Himalayas are melting faster, and their ...

He brought Arctic predators to the Suffolk countryside. Now, the zookeeper is on a mission to transform farming and ...

The payoffs are real: ancient biochemistry could spawn new drugs or enzymes that work in extreme cold. Yet each core sample ...