Deep inside Greenland’s vast ice sheet, scientists are uncovering hidden pockets of heat that are quietly reshaping how the ...

Icebergs have more in common with Instagram than you might expect. With both, what you see is only 10 per cent of what’s really there. For every towering wall of blue-tinged ice, every Viennetta-slab ...

Icebergs choke the fjord where Jakobshavn glacier flows into the sea off western Greenland. Photo by Ian Joughin, University of Washington. New CU-Boulder-led paper could improve understanding of ...

Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the growth of algae, which can survive on the surface of the ice. These dark ...

There could be an irreversible retreat of parts of the ice sheets, raising sea levels much faster than currently planned.

INNAARSUIT, Greenland - Authorities in northwestern Greenland are warning residents of a small coastal village to exercise caution as a massive iceberg looms along the coast, raising fears of ...

Since 2000, the melting of Arctic glaciers has exposed some 1,500 miles of coastline, a study finds. For the research, published in Nature Climate Change, scientists tracked the movement of 1,500 ...

The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth, and now we can see it—literally. As rising temperatures accelerate the pace of Arctic glacier retreat, nearly 2,500 kilometers of new ...