For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from ...

By Shanna Hanbury A photo series on ice stupas — artificial glaciers in the northern Indian Himalayas — recently won first place in the 2024-25 Onewater’s Walk of Water: Water Towers photo story ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Icicles and ice dams are caused when water freezes along gutters or downspouts from a mixture of temperature fluctuation and heat from your home. Heat rising through your roof melts accumulated snow ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

A newly discovered subglacial water network is playing a significant role in how Antarctica’s ice sheets move toward the ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. built Camp Century under Greenland's glacier as a covert military base. Initially posed as a research facility, the base suffered from a nuclear reactor leak and unstable ...

Beneath the great white continent, several kilometers away, numerous active volcanoes, such as Mount Erebus, could accelerate ...

With cyberattacks expected to cost businesses more than $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, it's little wonder that global ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

By Alimat Aliyeva The Greenland Ice Sheet, the largest freshwater reservoir in the Northern Hemisphere, is losing mass ...