Back in 1824, a French physicist named Joseph Fourier made a breakthrough that would fundamentally change our understanding ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

It is official: 2024 was the hottest year since 1850, around the time scientists began keeping reliable records of Earth’s ...

During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

"This therefore excludes a causal relationship between the volcanic eruption and the abrupt change in climate," explains the Heidelberg researcher and first author of the study. Identifying the ...

many of which are locked away under thick layers of ice. A new study shows that glacial retreat coupled with isostatic rebounding caused by anthropogenic climate change could have a profound ...