The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts have become the first humans to orbit Earth via its poles, capturing images of the Arctic and ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

BOULDER, Colorado – The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite ... by temperature differences between the planet’s higher and lower latitudes, a ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age ... from modern instruments on how Earth responds to various changes.