Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the most prominent interannual climate variability signal, has been widely studied for its teleconnections with Antarctic sea ice variability. However, its ...

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A strange type of ice thought to dwell deep in the oceans ... Nikk Ogasa is a staff writer who focuses on the physical sciences for Science News. He has a master's degree in geology from McGill ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare ... are published today (14 February 2025) in the Journal Science Advances. The findings will help to reconcile a debate ...

When Andreas Fichtner unspooled a fiber-optic cable into a deep hole in Greenland’s ice, he wasn’t expecting to discover a whole new way that glaciers move. Even when the cable started sending ...

New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience the study provides the first ...