Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic warms and traditional hunting grounds vanish, researchers are finding that ...

Scientists have discovered that the Antarctic ice sheet witnessed a rapid collapse thousands of years ago. This was also ...

Global warming may overshoot, driving extreme cooling and potentially triggering Earth’s next ice age, scientists warn.

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

As the new year begins, Texans will see dozens of new laws take effect on January 1 — from faster evictions for squatters to ...

Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

"We've been tracking children's growth from birth all the way through to adulthood, and the fastest period of growth is clearly the first couple of years during infancy," Sean Cumming, a professor in ...