He has really put Greenland on the map once again," Knudsen-Ostermann, operator of Greenland Cruises, said, standing on the dock of an ice-packed ... vast wealth of rare earth minerals critical ...

Four were women, who washed laundry in large metal vats and prepared meals, typically a chunk of ice and dirt ... of different types of earth; the result is a detailed map to a depth of more ...

Beyond the breakfast burritos and sweet rolls, the menu offers plenty of other New Mexican classics worth exploring. The ...

A house perched on a cliff high above the Tanana River offered the perfect scenic backdrop for an ambitious sporting project: transforming the landscape into a towering ice wall just steps from ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very detailed map of everything beneath the millions ...

Sea ice reduction happens when more sea ice melts during the summer compared to what freezes during the winter. Last year was Earth's warmest year on record. The Global Carbon Project found that ...

A Global Catastrophe Witness the devastating environmental shifts that would occur if Earth's ice caps vanished.

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined since scientists started tracking it half a century ago. | Credit ...