Purple pigmentation in a diverse array of algae absorbs heat and creates a feedback loop responsible for 2% of total daily ...

A glacier in Antarctica is committing "ice piracy"—stealing ice from a neighbor—in a phenomenon that has never been observed ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

Olsen and a team of scientists had been traveling for hours on the ice when they encountered the shocking conditions, the BBC ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

But he noted that we've been aware since the '80s of dramatic quantities of microbes found in even the most pristine of Antarctic ice sheets or on top of mountains, such as the Andean glaciers ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

At the time, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which stretched over North America as far south as Pennsylvania, started to recede. Melting ice flooded into the oceans, and sea levels worldwide ...

The Ice Sheet previously served as a venue for curling events during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Commissioner Jim Harvey praised Marty Smith and Todd Ferrario of the Weber County Culture ...