Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

For more than four decades, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has made an annual pilgrimage to the glaciers of Washington's North Cascades, meticulously documenting his retreat in what has become one of the ...

At the edge of Antarctica, a small cluster of tents and drilling rigs has appeared on a slab of ice that may not survive the ...

Wang Feiteng (1st L), a glacier scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explains ice core drilling operation to a group ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...

Glaciers function as critical infrastructure, supplying water, food, and energy for nearly half the world’s population, even though they cover only a small share of the Earth’s surface. That support ...