It started with an unusual storm that passed over the North Pole on Feb. 8. The National Snow and Ice Data Center says it caused the sea ice to crack, and the cracks to spread in a curving pattern, ...

New estimates of ice shelf melting around Antarctica since the 1990s show where and when ice has been lost and where meltwater entered the Southern Ocean A science team led by researchers at Scripps ...

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant ...

A picture of an ice formation in the Northumberland Strait is fascinating viewers on social media — and for good reason, according to the Atlantic Canadian Coast Guard. The picture was taken by a ...

Monthly December ice extent for 1979 to 2010. Credit: NSIDC. Arctic sea ice extent fell to the lowest level observed during the month of December since the beginning of satellite monitoring in 1979, ...

Antarctic sea ice has shown a complex pattern of changes over recent decades having slowly increased in extent in the early part of this century before decreasing rapidly and reaching a record low ...

The rapid decline of Arctic sea ice during the last couple of decades has spurred climate scientists to study how that meltdown influences the rest of the planet, and a new study suggests that the ...

An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its onset is most likely delayed due to man-made climate change, an international team of scientists found in their analysis published this week in ...

This ice pattern formed for the same reason that bubbles form in glasses of fizzy drinks - and one reader even wrote a poem to elaborate on the process If you observe a glass of fizzy drink, you will ...

It may look like a close-up snap of a honeycomb, but these pictures are actually what the Martian landscape looks like from orbit. The strange polygon-shaped features have been photographed numerous ...

With the cold air finally becoming persistent in the past week, the amount of ice cover is starting to show up. We really have just begun to experience temperatures staying below freezing around the ...