Since the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, global environmental efforts have intensified, yet invisible threats—from melting glaciers to undetected gas leaks, smoldering wildfires to industrial emissions— ...

A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The findings suggest that the capacity of polar oceans to ...

The formation of the Great Lakes is the result of numerous geological events, the most recent of which involved massive Ice Age glaciers.

In observance of the United Nations’ International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, the Mobius Foundation, founded by Pradip ...

A cellular spike-in metagenomic method for absolute quantification of microorganisms in the aquatic environment is used to develop a risk assessment framework to support informed water quality ...

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

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

Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an ...

A March report from the World Meteorological Organization paints a grim picture. The agency's State of the Global Climate ...

A new report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warns that rapid glacial melt in ...

But lately, as I read news about deadly heat waves and disappearing glaciers, those titles are beginning to seem almost naive ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...