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Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...

When you think about the ramifications of the climate crisis in our polar regions, you’ll likely think about melting ice caps and the consequentially rising sea levels. You might even think of ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

A new scientific study revealed that Earth's North and South Poles could shift by more than 89 feet by the year 2100. Melting ice due to our planet's overheating is moving these geographic poles, ...

Tom J. Battin is a professor of environmental sciences at the Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Centre, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Nearly half of ...

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

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The 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe climate change impacts. But new research says even that level is ...