While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

Scientists say Earth is on the brink of crossing critical climate tipping points, from melting ice sheets to dying ...

Is there gold in Greenland’s ice?Entrepreneurs are flocking to the Arctic island to harvest its most abundant resource in ...

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

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier's surface, which can accelerate its melting. Glaciers are massive bodies of white ...

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...

During cold (glacial) cycles, ice sheets sprawled across Antarctica, Greenland and North America ... researchers believed North America's Laurentide Ice Sheet disappeared very early in the ...

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

The lingering Laurentide Ice Sheet may have masked the true extent ... ice loss early in the Last Interglacial — outpacing Greenland's melt — which caused the Antarctic crust to rise, sloshing ...

Current climate policy is insufficient. Learn how human emissions drive climate change and the consequences of inaction.