WASHINGTON - The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.
"The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.
Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute [...]

A powerful volcano erupted under the ice sheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding that prompts questions about ice loss from the white continent, British scientists report on Sunday.
The explosive event — rated "severe" to "cataclysmic" on an international scale of volcanic force — [...]

Residents insist Greenland’s freezing temperatures don’t mean global warming has been called off. While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland.
On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have [...]

TRENTON — New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced today that New Jersey is joining a federal lawsuit brought by California against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking to uphold the right of states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. New Jersey is one of 15-states joining the California lawsuit.
The federal Clean Air [...]

PARIS (AFP) - The dramatic loss of the Arctic ice cap may have been triggered by disruption to the thermal layers of atmosphere stacked over Earth’s far north, according to Swedish research to be published Thursday.
The study, published in Nature, offers a new explanation for the rise in the Arctic’s surface temperature, which over the [...]

EDWARDSPORT, Ind. - From the top of a hill here in coal country, you can see distant swells of smoke curling up from coal-fired power plants along the flat horizon. Even here, in a town of only 348 residents, a small coal plant has operated off and on since World War II.
But that plant might [...]

Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.
In recent years, Greenland’s ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea—a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to [...]