"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.

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 ...

Acutely aware of the consequences of global warming ... colour during melt season—a consequence of algal blooms that are colonising expanding areas of ice exposed by global warming.

In addition to being a critical habitat for arctic animals, including polar bears ... and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has been lost to global warming. Not only is this melting a grave ...

Polar sea ice has reached record, and near-record, lows for this time of year, pushing the pace of global warming and alarming ... and increasingly common surface melting temperatures in Greenland.

“One of the consequences of a warmer world is melting sea ice ... including polar bears, seals and, in Antarctica, penguins. “The current record low global sea ice extent revealed by the ...

When reflective ice gives way to dark ocean, the sun's energy, instead of bouncing back into space, is absorbed by the water, warming it and fueling further ice melt and global warming.