Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased by nearly 50 percent.

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Is there gold in Greenland’s ice?Entrepreneurs are flocking to the Arctic island to harvest its most abundant resource in ...

"Tardigrades form tuns by contracting their musculature and simultaneously expel water, which results in a decrease in overall volume," Derrick Kolling, chair of the department of chemistry at ...

But he found the fungi where no one believed they existed—Antarctica—and he says they ... clearing out a century's worth of accumulated ice under Shackleton's hut (revealing stores of whiskey ...

Trees in this ancient forest ... Mysterious pyramid found peaking from below the ice in Antarctica Surprising prehistoric landscape discovered under two kilometers of Antarctic ice The impact ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.