Arctic sea ice loss and fierce storms leave Kivalina’s volunteer search and rescue fighting to protect their island from climate disasters

Indigenous governments, nonprofits, hunters and first responders from Iñupiaq, Yupik and Unangan communities across Alaska have long been …

Russia to bring woolly mammoths back from the dead

The government of a remote region in Siberia is planning to build a “Jurassic Park” where cloned woolly mammoth, cave lions and other …

Understanding climate change

Did climate change begin with industrialisation? How do we identify ‘bad’ climate change?

This summer was the hottest on record for the northern hemisphere, says NOAA

Planet Earth suffers third-hottest three-month season and second-warmest August, according to US’ weather agency

Can fast-moving glaciers contribute to sea-level rise?

Sea-level rise depends on how meltwater drainage operates and modulates the speeds of glaciers

A submarine robot gives close up of Doomsday glacier, finds more trouble beneath it

It is one of the glaciers on the continent that exhibits the quickest and most unstable changes

Simply Put: Endangered species

Simply Put: Ice-free Arctic

How are the Winter Olympics affected by climate change?

Warming induced by climate change is putting the snow sports industry across the world at risk, forcing governments to resort to artificial solutions

World’s oldest asteroid strike in western Australia might have triggered a global thaw

Models show that if the Yarrabubba asteroid hit an ice sheet 5 km thick, more than 200 billion tonne water vapour would be ejected 

Arctic Sea ice saw largest decline in 41 years in July 2019: NCPOR

Loss of ice cover in the Arctic Sea has had strong effects on components of climate system, such as reduction of heat and momentum, water vapour &…

Accelerated ice melts in Greenland triggers alarm

The phenomenon is likely to increase estimates of global sea level rise

Simply Put: The 'positives' of polar ice melt

Melting ice effect: 3 of 4 Greenlanders want govt to consider selling sand

Sizeable portion of Greenland’s indigenous population wants their leadership to evaluate the effects of sand exports and extraction on the …

Disappearing sea ice is changing the whole ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean

A warmer Arctic could disrupt ocean circulation and global weather systems, while permafrost will continue to thaw, potentially releasing …

Smaller Himalayan glaciers more sensitive to climate change

A study shows that small and low-altitude glaciers have lost about 67 per cent of the total basin volume between 1984 and 2012

Recipe for rice

The two recently-published incomplete rice genome sequences do not in any way undermine the ten-country effort at a complete sequencing of the …

Melting season in Arctic longer by about five days: NASA report

An ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer might be reached this century, say experts

Greenland’s sub-glacial lakes dried out in weeks, say studies

Researchers are worried these sudden phenomena may accelerate melting of the ice sheet

Neptune’s summer temperature drops dramatically. What may have caused this?

Scientists had expected the planet to slowly grow warmer, not colder

Antarctic iceberg, once Earth’s biggest, suffers major split

The moving ice giant has been floating away from Antarctica since 2017

Simply Put: Shrinking GDP

Global warming is universal, speedy and worldwide: Study

In contrast, other well-known cold and warm snaps of the past were more regional

India gets re-elected as observer to Arctic Council

China, South Korea, Singapore, Italy and Japan also have Observer status at the Council

Iceberg twice the area of New York City to break off Antarctica

The break could happen anytime this year or early next year, say experts