This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A changing climate triggers a sudden shift in ocean circulation, creating weather havoc and plunging Earth into an abrupt new Ice Age. It sounds like the basis for a Hollywood ...

The recent analysis of a 10,000-year-old ice core from Greenland has unveiled fascinating insights into Earth’s climate history, providing keys that may unlock the mystery of what lies ahead for our ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing it down. Reading time 3 minutes Greenland’s ice sheet is the ...

When talking about climate change, sea level rise is often brought up as one of the devastating consequences. Melting glaciers and emaciated polar bears have become infamous images over the decades, ...

Glaciologist Alun Hubbard holds up part of a 15-meter-long ice core, collected in southeastern Greenland to study how atmospheric rivers impact the Greenland Ice Sheet. The visible divide between ice ...

University of Vermont geologist Paul Bierman in his lab on campus Credit: File: Bear Cieri In the prehistoric past, Greenland was green. Paul Bierman, an environmental science professor in the ...

A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last ice age. The researchers point toward ...