The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

The melting of Antarctica's sea ice has had severe consequences for the Southern Ocean already, from the loss of its habitats ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

A review of data showed that the Birch Glacier was a rarity in that it has been advancing while most glaciers have been ...

Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists ...

While colonialism was the biggest threat in the 18th century when the United States achieved independence, many now believe ...

The glaciers of Switzerland, which has the most of any country in continental Europe, are fading because of global warming.

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

In recent years, glaciologists like Matthias Huss of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, known as ETHZ, and others ...