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

For the hot water drilling, they used a high-pressure ... "The subglacial watercourses play a central role in the melting of the ice shelf," emphasizes Horgan. "Our findings are therefore a ...

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 ...

Glaciers melting rapidly, fields of moss expanding, water streaming off ice shelves once frozen solid: these are just a few ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

Just below Greenland is a menacing stretch of water known as the Cold Blob. As the planet heats up, the Cold Blob remains a ...

Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat ...

Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, fueling more extreme weather and wreaking a heavy toll ...

Researchers have, for the first time, directly observed the flow of water beneath the ice of West Antarctica. They drilled a 500-metre-deep hole through the Antarctic ice sheet until they reached ...