Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers ...

For decades, the world's largest iceberg, weighing in at nearly a trillion tons, was stuck in place. But now it is melting at ...

Just when you thought you’d seen everything in the boreal forest, a reader points out white whiskers sprouting from the ...

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have ...

In 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating bands -- each band magnetized with a polarity opposite the surrounding bands.