Greenland is covered by more than 650,000 square miles of ice – a massive, frozen ice sheet that blankets the island and slowly flows toward the ocean. But as the climate warms, the ice is melting and ...

Melting sea ice changes not only how much light enters the ocean, but also its color, disrupting marine photosynthesis and ...

Researchers found that land water loss exceeded Greenland's ice melt contribution to sea level rise in the early 2000s. The Washington Post explains how this massive soil moisture decline affects ...

Purple pigmentation in a diverse array of algae absorbs heat and creates a feedback loop responsible for 2% of total daily ...

To a large extent, among the broader body politic and the general populace, that remains the case: a 2016 survey of American ...

A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute of Polar ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

New opportunities for fishing off the west coast of Greenland are being opened up by climate change, University of ...

Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as ...

The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in ...

In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.