The Andes mountain range, stretching over 8,900 kilometers along South America's western edge, serves as the continent's primary water tower. This massive mountain system supplies fresh water to ...

The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first ...

Tidewater glaciers, like those seen by millions of tourists in Alaska's Glacier Bay, flow down from the land and terminate at the ocean, where warming water and air temperatures can expedite melting, ...

Bethan Davies received funding for this work from the National Geographic and Rolex, from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and from the Grantham Institute. The year 2019 concludes a decade of ...

Hold on, hold on! We may have a new world record here. Researchers from Brown University may have found a substance with a melting point that beats out the previous record by a few hundred degrees.