Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the ...

Auroras are usually visible only above polar regions, but strong geomagnetic storms triggered by coronal mass ejections, which frequently accompany solar ... shelf in East Antarctica collapsed ...

Icebergs surrounded a team of researchers in January as they cruised toward Antarctica. The team had been studying a thriving ...

Thirty years ago, the noxious clouds of chlorofluorocarbons that had been gathering in Earth’s stratosphere for half a century would chew a seasonal hole in the protective ozone layer over Antarctica ...

The two ice sheets on Earth today cover most of Greenland and Antarctica. During the last ice age, ice sheets also covered much of North America and Scandinavia. Together, the Antarctic and ...

Ice-sheet experts are concerned While this study focused on northwestern Greenland's largest glacier, another grave concern is that the larger ice shelves found in Antarctica could be difficult to ...

It’s galling that lawmakers gave the Northeast $20 million for a flood-control system after just one storm ... and with Antarctica and Greenland melting — the water won’t just lap over ...

After providing an overview of solar activity as measured by the sunspot ... ESA waited for the storm to strike.

A new discovery deep beneath one of Antarctica's rivers of ice could change ... fields are created by events across the globe, such as solar wind interacting with the Earth's ionosphere and ...

Although dust input was high during ice ages, no evidence of a fertilization effect could be found in the Antarctic Ocean. Rather, the production of algae, for example, and thus carbon dioxide ...

On its 10th flyby of the sun, the Parker Solar Probe hit record speeds that would see it get from New York to London in just over half a minute. The fact that the solar system could be traveling ...