For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, scientists say those measurements indicate a disturbing trend — the ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine how cities would change if all ice melted. NATO scrambles fighter jets as Russian ...

New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

Earth is getting darker. A subtle drop in reflectivity, driven by melting ice and cleaner air, is amplifying global climate ...

But spending time on the ice with people who rely on it for their way of life provides a different perspective.

Studies of historic ice sheets, such as Kelley and Jackson's, allow researchers to learn what caused them to collapse. Ice ...