Since satellites began tracking it, Arctic sea ice's winter peak has shrunk by an area about the size of Pakistan. View on ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

The Arctic has ended the winter with the lowest sea ice coverage on record, US scientists have said. Arctic sea ice melts and ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

As global temperatures rise, glaciers are melting, creating dangerous glacial lakes. These lakes pose risks to downstream ...

“At low temperatures, the snow deforms slower,” Sturm said of the bending snow phenomenon. “In warmer places like Colorado, a ...

Glaciers are vital freshwater resources for billions of people around the world, containing about 69% of the world’s freshwater.