As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the melting underside of an Antarctic ice shelf, Earth.com reported. An ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Ice is a complicated material,” says Jean-Denis Brassard, an anti-icing specialist at the University of Quebec. Although one chunk may look like any other, each is a messy collection of individual ...

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