Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to ...

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 ...

The unprecedented rates of warming and melting of vast ice masses in Greenland have also led to movements in the bedrock from the last Ice Age.

Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g., ...

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had ...

Patagonia is an impressively diverse region with a wide variety of landscapes. Expansive forests, open grasslands, arid deserts and imposing mountain ranges characterize the region. But it was not ...

Traveling up from the Mars equator toward its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region ...