Chile's glaciers are facing a higher risk of collapse and landslides due to rising temperatures and the country's seismic and ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

On this page: People Species and ecosystems Economy and business Infrastructure Places New opportunities Researchers in New Zealand, and around the world, are beginning to understand the different ...

The Department of Defense on Monday reversed course, temporarily, on canceling the availability of satellite data that is key ...

Plankton are vital to planetary and climate stability and are therefore important contributors to human well-being.

The alpine tundra biome is also a cold climate region with temperatures averaging below freezing at night. This area receives more precipitation yearly than the Arctic tundra; the average annual ...

Geological observations informed by climate dynamics imply that the oceans were 99.9% covered by light-blocking ice shelves during two discrete, self-reversing Snowball Earth epochs spanning a ...

Using a custom-built drone, their work could lead to more accurate estimates of ice loss in the rapidly warming polar regions. “We will be able to understand how water moves in and out of Greenland in ...

Diminishing ice has impacts on the landscapes in New Zealand’s southern alps. Andrew Lorrey/NIWA, As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice loss has repercussions for climate and water cycles.

Polar and Alpine regions are currently undergoing rapid changes due to climate change. Changes in vegetation patterns, such as expansion of shrubs, shift in composition and traits, and altered ...

Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world. The ...