The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world.

Temperature in the Arctic was 1 to 2 °C (1.8 to 3.6 °F) above average in the region and the surrounding seas. The Bering Sea ...

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

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

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

The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of March 15, 2025. The middle map is a close up of the Antarctic Peninsula through the same time frame. The graph shows the daily ...

By 2019, Li was ready for another challenge. That spring, she set off to bike through six European countries. Over 66 days, ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

especially those under eight years of age, should avoid slush ice drinks containing glycerol," the review, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, states. Researchers added that "there are ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands of years later, divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia ...

At 7.8 kilometers, or roughly 5 miles from end to end, the skateway is the world’s largest ice rink and one whose very existence is threatened by climate change. But on our recent visit ...