It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Knud Rasmussen Glacier, in Greenland. Muratart/Shutterstock For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably ...

Credit: Richard Jones/Cover Images Scientists say efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may fail to save the world’s ice sheets, resulting in ...

Deep under Greenland’s ice, a thin layer of frozen dirt and rock has been holding a secret for thousands of years. Now, a drilling project co-led by the University at Buffalo has brought that secret ...

When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies show that ...

Edward Doddridge receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Over the past four summers, Antarctic sea ice extent has hit new lows. I’m part of a large group of scientists who set out to ...