As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Scientists have discovered Earth's soil moisture has declined so dramatically that changes may be irreversible in human ...

The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier's surface, which can accelerate its melting. Glaciers are massive bodies of white ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year. That's 140 trillion gallons of water or enough to cover all of California in more than four feet ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.