My house located in southeastern Pennsylvania about nine miles north of Philadelphia, in which my wife and I have lived and ...

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A New Chapter in Climate Science The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released its latest report, ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

Experts have uncovered over 100 volcanoes beneath the ice sheet in western Antarctica, which could potentially erupt and ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

Cryospheric science is the interdisciplinary study of permafrost, snow and ice, primarily on the surface of the Earth, but also on other planets and moons. The cryosphere is an integral part of ...

Scientists say glacier engineering could be a potential stopgap as the Earth passes a critical climate milestone. Others aren ...