The ice battery design provides 40% energy savings over traditional air conditioning while lightening the load on the ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Surface elevation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica68. The black line marks the present-day grounding line74; pale areas are floating ice shelves.

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and ...

Ice sheet melting is the dominant contributor to rising seas and the rate of annual sea level rise has doubled over the past 30 years. It’s set to get worse.