Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

A monumental study has revealed that Greenland's Prudhoe Dome has a historic melting past remarkably similar to today’s warming conditions, raising urgent concerns over rising sea levels and the ...

BOSTON – Why is sea ice continuing to melt in the Arctic? NASA researchers are aiming to find out as they just wrapped up a never-before-done experiment. The research, called Arctic ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The team shows that ice can remain slippery near minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit ...

As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice. Researchers are also ...

Ice-melting probes and thermal drilling technologies represent a sophisticated intersection of thermal engineering and planetary exploration. These technologies utilise controlled heating to melt ice, ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...