"With slow progress over the past few decades, additional measures may buy us time." Scientists prep bold experiments to ...

Melting sea ice is a global problem with far-reaching consequences. As the Arctic and Antarctic lose ice faster than expected ...

New research shows polar ice sheets may begin irreversible collapse even at 1.5°C warming - putting millions at risk.

There is a more recent version of these data. The MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m Grid (MYD10A2) data set contains data fields for maximum snow cover extent over an eight-day compositing ...

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...

Rapidly melting sea ice driven by climate change, a crisis that has transformed the Arctic into a litmus test for our ...

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees ...

ICESat/GLAS data remain available in HDF5 format. The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument on the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provides global measurements of polar ...