Scientists have obtained their best satellite assessment yet of the status of the world's glaciers.
Europe's Cryosat spacecraft tracked the 200,000 or so glaciers on Earth and found they have lost 2…
If you could shape an ice cube out of all the ice losses from Greenland and Antarctica over the past three decades, it would stand 20km high.
An international group of scientists who work with…
Antarctic glaciers may be more sensitive to changes in sea temperature than was thought, new research shows.
The British Antarctic Survey and the US Antarctic programme put sensors and an underwater…
A spacecraft measuring Earth's warming 'greenhouse' effect in its greatest ever detail will be built in the UK.
The Forum satellite will be assembled by aerospace giant Airbus at its factory in…
China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts.
An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of…
There are 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon on Earth, with more than 99% of it resident beneath our feet.
Scientists from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) project have spent 10 years assessing…