The Grand Canyon is one of the deepest and most famous gorges on land, plunging about a mile from rim to river. Yet it is not ...

The Antarctic ice sheet covers 14 million square kilometers and averages two kilometers thick. Locked inside it is roughly 60 percent of all the freshwater on Earth. If every bit of it melted, sea ...

After years of preparation and effort an international team have succeeded in recovering over 200 metres of sediment from below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Claire Concannon visits the sediment core ...

Study finds mercury accumulation in Antarctic Peninsula sediments has risen 160% since industrialisation, while glacier ...

According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ...

With approximately one-third of the world's population living within a day's walk of a coastline, sea-level rise poses a serious global threat. Every centimeter of sea-level rise could displace 1.5 ...

Consider the high Himalayas where there is a lack of oxygen and extremely low winter temperatures; the Sahara where ...

Antarctica’s Blood Falls looks exactly like what the feature’s name suggests. But despite appearing to bleed out for millions of years, its waters are actually home to an array of microscopic life.

A parliamentary panel has recommended to the Centre to consider appointing a "polar ambassador", saying that creating such a position will help India project the importance given to these regions in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's ice trends are complex. There are two types: sea ice, which forms from ocean water and fluctuates seasonally, and the ...

Scientists may be able to reliably forecast Antarctic ice loss through the middle of this century, offering governments a vital head start on sea level rise. After that, unstable ice retreat could ...

A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast ...