Glaciers worldwide are archives of human pollution, preserving carbon from fossil fuels and wildfires in their ice for ...

Imagine standing atop a mountain, surrounded by a frozen world sculpted over thousands of years—only to watch it melt away before your eyes. That’s not a scene from a dystopian novel, but a reality ...

As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand ...

National Weather Service to launch first heat advisories in Fairbanks and Juneau this summer in response to climate change.

"It's like watching the Statue of Liberty melt." Scientists ... in parts of Alaska. From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Man Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice ...

Houston, as the saying nearly goes, has a problem. The city is one of 25 American metropolises to be officially sinking, according to a new study using measurements from space.

After 1750, most glaciers in Alaska started thinning and retreating ... which means a larger portion of the glacier can resist melting throughout the year. It also helps that the Taku Glacier ...

It will be a different park ten years from now. According to a recent scientific report, between 1962 and 2006, glaciers melting in Alaska lost more than 440 cubic miles of water—nearly four ...

For example, Utah’s Zion National Park has four days annually on average above 92.4 degrees – its 99th percentile temperature. That could jump to 21 days, or even higher.

Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other ...