with polar ice caps forming only under specific and coincidental cooling conditions. This revelation not only reshapes our understanding of Earth’s past but also raises serious concerns about ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought to be uninhabitable ...

The polar ice caps are melting, and it is, to put it mildly, a problem. Melting glaciers have several environmental and ecological ramifications; those implications include rising sea levels and ...

The United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have evaluated the state of water and climate ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars ...

Bedrock rises through the ice in places, making for summit vistas that extend uninterrupted across the polar ice cap for hundreds of miles. But from where I stood during my expedition, there is a view ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a rate of up to 0.13 mm per year, indicating a cold and highly viscous upper mantle. This slow deformation suggests that Mars's interior ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

The findings from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service involve the third warmest February on record for the planet.