Researchers found that Earth’s rotation is speeding up ever so slightly due to melting ice caps, which could force officials to consider a “negative leap second” by next decade. If the trend keeps up, ...

Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square miles, a new JPL study found ice loss in Greenland is far worse than previously thought and Antarctic ice is now at the lowest level since ...

This February, a research team from London's Queen Mary University was attempting to study fresh snowfall in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. But as Meteored reported, most of the precipitation ...

As the world’s attention shifts to Alaska for the critical summit on Ukraine between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it also ...

As the polar ice caps melt, the Earth actually slows down, California scientists say. Less ice at the Earth's poles and more water weight spread around to other places are leading to the planet ...

The idea that melting ice caps would change the Earth's spin rate was advanced years ago: Agnew found reference to the concept in an 1866 paper by William Thomson. Still, previous analysis of the ...

The ice in the Earth’s ice caps has formed over centuries during which formation was greater than melting. The Antarctic ice sheet averages more than 1.5km (or 1,500 meters) thick and in places ...

2006-09-13 14:55:00 PDT GREENBELT, MD.-- The vast expanses of ice floating in the Arctic Sea are shrinking in winter as well as summer, most likely a result of global warming, NASA scientists said ...

You wouldn’t think an animal like this faces many threats, but one looms on the horizon: Melting ice caps. As climate change melts 13% of summer sea ice per decade, polar bears face their ...

According to lead author Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., over the next 40 years Arctic ice melt will take an economic toll of between $2.4 trillion and $24 trillion. Unless we change course — and fast.