Additionally Walt Meier — a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center who was not involved in the study — told Salon that he was not surprised to see new vegetation on ...

For many millions of years, as the Earth enjoyed its balmy, hot-house atmosphere, Antarctica was a thriving habitat for a variety of species—even after the dinosaurs. Until, that is, roughly 34 ...

This spread of vegetation on a continent traditionally dominated by ice ... rain—not snow—was observed falling on the summit of Greenland's massive ice cap. “The Antarctic landscape is still almost ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures climb again, but over the last three decades, satellites have observed a 13% decline per decade in the summertime ...

Blizzard has revealed the patch notes for 2.0 ahead of Vessel of Hatred's release in October The full patch notes for season 4 are huge and hiding some neat surprises The full patch notes for ...

For instance, the Rwenzori Mountains’ ice caps have shrunk by 49 percent since 1987 and could ... adding that even coffee ...

Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to ...

When the thick glaciers and ice caps that had covered the North Atlantic ... the fluorine it expelled contaminated the island’s plants and water sources, killing more than half of Iceland ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow ... new study found the area ...

This patch of vegetation grew tenfold in the past 35 ... sunlight the white landscape reflects back into space—of the ice caps. Because more ice is melting into the bare landscape and ocean ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow. It has earned its ...