Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international ...

Melting ice sheets open up land and sea that were previously inaccessible, presenting new — albeit dangerous — opportunities.

Melting ice means the race for shipping in the Arctic is heating up.

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

Rising seas could flood coastal and delta areas in India that will change landscapes and put cities, farmland and important ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will use hot water to bore through the ice and deploy instruments at one ...

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ...

Scientists aim to bore half a mile through the ice and place instruments in the warming ocean waters below, giving the world ...

A recent study shows that there is a lot more sediment trapped beneath Greenland’s ice sheet than we realized, which could ...

Greenland ranks eighth globally in rare earth reserves, hosting two of the world's largest known deposits.

U.S. saber-rattling has Canada refocusing on Arctic security and long-ignored gaps in defense.

Global warming is transforming Greenland at an astonishing pace, revealing valuable mineral deposits and opening up new trade ...