Thwaiting Period The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is called the "Doomsday Glacier" for a reason. Larger than the state of ...

Huge shells of frozen carbon dioxide at Mars' south polar cap resulted in subsurface meltwater, which fed a huge system of ...

Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river features.

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

A newly published study has mapped glacial debris across the Greater Caucasus, the mountainous region between the Black and ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

Scientists are engaged in international debate over the best solution to averting a potential "Doomsday Glacier" catastrophe, in response to conflicting study results over the summer.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

As glaciers retreat, the Arctic is rapidly evolving into a major global trade route, with ship traffic increasing by 37 ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...