Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

Accelerated loss of ice across the planet is driving unprecedented risks to the global economy and climate, more than 50 ...

With a new airport opening in the capital later this month and a clutch of expedition cruise itineraries available, Joanna ...

Since September, the polar night of winter has been spreading steadily southward in the Arctic. But sea ice hasn't been keeping pace. During October, growth of the floating ice was held back by ...

All people on Earth depend on the cryosphere. Snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost are significant reservoirs ...

Scientists have discovered that the Arctic's vast permafrost areas are now releasing more greenhouse gases than they absorb, ...

The image of the Arctic typically doesn't involve much green, so when researchers found green patches beneath the ice, they ...

One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show. Alexandra Barymova Lomonosov Moscow ...

Last winter, the eastern Pacific Ocean experienced a robust El Nino, which was marked by higher-than-usual sea surface ...

By Elizaveta Vereykina Tourists are canceling bookings for winter attractions; experts are warning of severe storms and the ...

Extraordinarily warm ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are helping to fuel an unusually active hurricane season.

She has travelled hundreds of kilometres above the Arctic Circle aboard a Greenpeace ... while the melting sea ice contributes to rising sea levels worldwide. Scientists said on Monday that ...