Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Glacial Fracking': A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions ... Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps Feb. 14, 2025 — The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought to be uninhabitable ...

Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it’s ever been ... from the average before 2010. Altogether, Earth is missing an area of sea ice large enough to cover the entire continental ...

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

the northern polar cap on Mars is quite young. They found this out by applying techniques used to measure what ice sheets on Earth do to its surface. The effect that widespread glaciation has is ...