These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

All three were arrested near their homes in urban East Coast areas and swiftly shipped off to detention facilities in rural Louisiana and Texas. These transfers underscore ICE’s power in ...

have gone way, way beyond in their effort to create a wall, almost a separation of state and federal government,” Brown continued. “I think that is going to prove difficult.” The ICE data ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in ... But humanity — and our planet — will be long gone before this happens.

LANSING, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) — A new interactive map has been launched to help residents track roads that have reopened following the recent ice storm. The map is available on the Ice Storm web ...