The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...

Rapid peatland expansion across the Arctic could change the global carbon balance, depending on how long new carbon remains stored.

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

Six projects will investigate innovative approaches that could help slow Arctic sea ice loss and reduce escalating ...

For a full decade, underwater microphones stationed beneath the ice near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, have been listening to the Arctic Ocean change its voice. A peer-reviewed study spanning 2015 to 2024 ...

Scientists claim that the Arctic soundscape is much more diverse than previously thought, and propose a change in how it ...

Earth’s oceans absorbed another record volume of heat in 2025, reinforcing a pattern that climate scientists say is accelerating ice loss in the Arctic and storing energy that will shape weather ...

Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now ...

A massive winter storm is set to impact half of the United States, bringing snow, ice, and record cold temperatures. Learn ...

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

While most of the world's glaciers are retreating as the climate warms, a small but significant population behaves very differently—and the consequences can be severe. A team of international ...

For much of North America, the last month has been an icy, frozen trudge. But from the right vantage point, it had a certain beauty.