From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Penn State geologist Richard Alley. Antarctica’s ice shelves are ...

Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a two-month-long journey underway to conduct research that will better explain what's ...

Tiny, pressurized air bubbles, trapped in ice, are accelerating the decline of some of the world’s glaciers, scientists have recently discovered. In tidewater glaciers—large rivers of ice that pour ...