In places like Antarctica, small things can make a difference. Scientists are finding that penguin waste is helping form ...

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Scientists have uncovered a hidden force behind the rapid melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—powerful wind jets known ...

Glaciers and sea ice are melting at alarming rates—but why is this happening, and what does it mean for our planet? In this 1 ...

Scientists studying the Blombstrandbreen glacier are trying to preserve crucial climate data before it's too late.

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of ...

Study reveals low-level wind jets reaching 32 m/s in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea region accelerate Thwaites and Pine Island glacier melting.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

Even if warming stops at 1.2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the average warming over roughly the last decade, glaciers are on track to lose significant volumes of ice within a millennium, ...

The extra heat in the ocean is also melting the fringes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, destabilizing its glaciers, and increasingly pushing up sea levels worldwide. The sea ice around Antarctica—formed ...