While researchers lose sleep over the rapidly melting ice sheets in the poles, studies suggest it is how history is repeating ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end or six and a half times taller than the Empire ...

The rugged, icy landscape means Greenland’s towns aren’t connected to each other by road, making air and sea the main modes of travel. With an ice sheet second only to Antarctica’s in size ...

A new study found on Wednesday that part of Greenland’s ice sheet is thinning further inland than previously believed, which is likely to lead to a greater rise in sea levels by the end of this ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...