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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Antarctica Froze Before the Arctic

Antarctica’s first ice sheet may have begun with a geological head start hidden deep beneath the continent. Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere...

The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly…

The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly...

Ancient Mantle Waves Inside Earth May Have Lifted Antarctica's Mountains Before It Froze Over

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where the Antarctic ice sheet could begin forming.

Antarctica Froze Millions of Years Before the Arctic. We May Finally Know Why

A new study presents a geological explanation for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet's head start.

Earth’s Coldest Temperature in 14 Years Recorded at Antarctica’s Concordia Station

Learn how people and instruments at one remote station endure the conditions behind a negative 119.4 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 84.1 degrees Celsius) reading.

Ancient Super-Eruptions May Have Frozen Earth for Centuries

Some of history’s most powerful eruptions may have plunged Earth into centuries of sustained cooling. A volcanic eruption can darken skies and cool the planet for a year or two. Ne...

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U.S. Army soldiers are mum on details while rushing married couple Kai and Jules Bevins to Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier. The Californian astrobiologists are there to investigate an...

Boreal forests shade permafrost so effectively that summer thaw stays about one metre shallower

Thick forest canopies keep northern permafrost cool, safeguarding vast carbon stores. This natural shade prevents soil thawing and the release of greenhouse gases. Researchers disc...

Scientists discover giant fan-shaped structure beneath Antarctica's ice sheet

Scientists have unearthed a colossal, fan-shaped geological formation hidden beneath East Antarctica's ice. This massive structure, dubbed the East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Provi...

Most ancient Arctic carbon entering the ocean gets buried

Antarctica once had a rainforest just 900 km from the South Pole

The earth has stopped being as shiny. Insurers are worried

-20C winters in the UK, icebergs off East Anglia?

Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

An eight-month expedition will set off soon from Norway on a mission to find new species before the climate crisis and pollution changes the northern ocean for everSix scientists a...

Paleo Week: Northern Canada was Once a Subtropical Paradise

Fossils of Eocene palm trees near the Arctic Circle reveal a heated past

Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scientist Editors Award

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 20...

Our Changing World: A precious piece of sediment and what it says about our future

A rare sediment core recovered from beneath Antarctica's ice is revealing how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to past warm periods.

The underground fridge that keeps food cool – even in a heatwave

Inspired by olden days ice houses, this underground fridge uses the earth’s stable temperature to keep food cool The post The underground fridge that keeps food cool – even in a h...

Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into greenhouse gases and accelerate climate change. But sediment co...

Polar Freezeover: Western Arctic Early July Sea Ice Exceeds 1980s Average

Highest level in 13 years… Higher than the 1980s average! The analysis by the Canada Ice Service (chart below) shows that on July 6, 2026. sea ice extent in the Western Arctic, inc...

Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall

New simulations suggest Europa’s massive ice shell may seal its hidden ocean off far more completely than scientists ever realized. Europa may contain more liquid water than Earth,...

In the Canadian Arctic, an experiment aims to stabilize thinning sea ice

Indigenous peoples living in the Arctic rely on sea ice for many aspects of their lives, from hunting and fishing to travel and cultural practices. Owing to human-driven climate ch...

Pluto's atmosphere is collapsing as it drifts away from the sun into a deep freeze

As Pluto edges further away from the sun, the chilly temperatures are causing its atmosphere to condense onto its barren surface as frost.

At the Frontier of Change: How—or Where— to Rebuild as Alaska's Permafrost Disappears

In some areas of the tiny subsistence coastal village of Kwigillingok along the Bering Sea in western Alaska, pockets of ground feel squishy, almost gelatinous.

Antarctica's toxic time bomb: Melting ice is unleashing dangerous amounts of mercury trapped for hundreds of years, scie...

Antarctica's melting ice is unlocking a toxic time that could poison the pristine ecosystem, scientists have warned.