Researchers examined three ice core records to identify lead pollution levels in the Arctic between 500 BC to 600 AD.

Eruptions of subglacial volcanoes may not be visible on the surface, but they can have consequences for the ice sheet. Heat ...

A slow climate feedback loop may be bubbling beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheet. The continent, divided east to west by the ...

Climate change − a global phenomenon − can neither be confirmed nor disproven by comparing Antarctic sea ice extent on two individual days.

At the end of last year, a farmer in eastern Turkey discovered a rare, largely intact late Roman mosaic while planting a ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

These fiber-optic cables, typically about the girth of a sausage, use light to carry vast amounts of data over long distances ...

With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them ...

Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest observation is shown in italics and coloured and removed from the table after 30 hours. Station names link to data for the ...