A reality is that the global warming that we humans are causing on our planet could have catastrophic consequences in the not ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

The photo of sled dogs trudging through meltwater atop the Greenland ice sheet offers stunning shades of blue — and a ...

Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists.

The gap stayed for several more months and swelled to the size of Switzerland a year later. The hole was located hundreds of ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...