As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

The amount of marine life off north-east Greenland could expand by more than a quarter, according to new research.

This is how nugget ice—found in restaurants, workplaces, hospitals, and even homes—is made to be so chewy and fun to eat.

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

In the soft, wet light the lichens and moss on the tangled clumps of buffaloberry along the river were screaming green and ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

The world is changing in ways that are both breathtaking and unsettling. Imagine hiking across a glacier, only to stumble ...

But the country's glaciers melted, and as they did, it revealed huge numbers of pathogens in the melting ice. Some of these disease-causing bugs may be so old, human immune systems are totally ...