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

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.

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

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest reason our sea levels are rising. It's pretty surprising, but these icy places ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

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.