Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

"I accidentally sauteed too many vegetables for soup recently — onions, carrots, celery — so I froze the excess and it was so ...

The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of March 15, 2025. The middle map is a close up of the Antarctic Peninsula through the same time frame. The graph shows the daily ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

Melting events such as the one Olsen witnessed ... as usually the water seeps through cracks in the ice. "It basically pops the ice sheet up and floats it out to the coast. So often you don ...

making them ideal when you need ice quickly. Meanwhile, larger cubes last longer in drinks and melt more slowly, which is useful for cocktails or keeping beverages cold without watering them down ...

Great sunset shot from Sandy through the “ice dune bridge” from Sunday night. Next picture from Ray taken Monday, shows what appears to be a lot of ice in the lake beyond Presque Isle.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who helped lead last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday. Photo: Jeenah Moon ...

"This is because glaciers are accelerating in response to warmer ocean temperatures, and because meltwater filling crevasses can force fractures deeper into the ice." According to Durham University, ...

Numerous studies have also shown that the melting of Greenland's ice sheet has picked up speed. If the ice mass, the second largest in the world after Antarctica, were to melt completely it could ...