Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute traveled to the Arctic Sea to study the effects of climate change, and they say ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Traditionally, melting sea ice is expected to freshen ocean surface waters, as freshwater from the ice dilutes the salty sea.

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

Scientific studies from beneath Greenland’s vast ice sheet have revealed that the region may be far more vulnerable to ...