Europa ice shell barrier: new research shows water rising through Europa's ice fractures forms frazil ice within hours, ...

Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, ...

Ice plays a critical role in keeping Earth's climate cool, but our rapidly warming world is taking its toll and ice is in general decline. For more than 10 years, ESA's CryoSat has been returning ...

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The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But lately, there's been a skip in the beat. During each of the last two summers, the ice around Antarctica has ...

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Last July, glaciologist Derek Mueller made his fourteenth annual quest to gather samples from Milne Fjord, a research station on the coastal margin of the “Last Ice Area”— a 400,000-square-mile region ...