In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine ...

Glacial troughs in Antarctica promote mixing of warm and cold water, affecting global climate. A new study explores whether ...

A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in Churchill, Canada, ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Scientists studying glaciers in West Antarctica observed a strange phenomenon dubbed "ice piracy." This occurs when one ...