The most unfortunate aspect of the extant situation is that we, earthlings, hardly ever stop to ponder how privileged we are.

Temperatures remain at very high levels, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual report. This will exacerbate ice melt, sea level rise and extreme weather events.

About 1,000 years ago, a Viking woman named Ingrid built a wharf to load ships at a bay on the Swedish coast and commemorated ...

Interplanetary dust laced with helium-3 that has settled on the sea floor has provided climate scientists with an urgently ...

The polar vortex is an area of low pressure, a wide expanse of swirling cold air that is parked in polar regions, according ...

Our first true shot of winter arrives late Sunday and spills into the first half of next week. I’m not talking about snow. Instead, a shot of Arctic air will plunge south into the United States from ...

Indeed, the oldest directly dated ice ever retrieved from Earth has been pulled from the frozen expanse of East Antarctica, ...

With new evidence that catastrophic climate-change "tipping points" are nearing - from surging sea levels as polar ice melts ...

Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers ...