Alaska’s lakes are expanding rapidly as glaciers retreat and scientists say the changes could bring some benefits.

Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by ...

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force ...

Climate change is resulting in sea level rise as ice on land melts and oceans expand. How much and how fast sea levels will rise in the near future will depend, in part, on the frequency of glacier ...

There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week research stint. "You know you're very much alone," says Mejía, a ...

Rising global temperatures break glaciers apart and force them to shrink at a pace the world can no longer ignore. On March 21, the United ... Read more The post World Day of Glaciers urges action to ...

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