Satellite imagery from GOES-19 captured a massive crack forming across Lake Erie’s ice on Feb. 8. Ice cover matters because it heavily impacts Great Lakes shipping – a multi-billion-dollar industry – ...

A growing network of meltwater lakes at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating the flow of major glaciers, potentially increasing the pace of global sea‑level rise. Warmer air and sea ...

Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an understudied and crucial region of the Antarctic sea-ice system for the first time. The ...

Stable sea ice along Alaska’s coast is disappearing faster than expected, with the season shrinking by weeks and even months in recent decades. The ice is forming later in the fall and, in some places ...

Aerosols act as ice nucleating particles (INPs) in mixed-phase clouds and cause uncertainties in climate prediction of the Arctic, which is warming faster than the global average. Primary biological ...

In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order to actually freeze this water below 0°C, there must be something (a ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic. But in 2015, that changed when the sea ice fringing this vast, icy continent stopped ...