The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...
In autumn 2024, Helge Titland, a 76-year-old mountaineer, spotted wooden stakes poking through melting snow at 4,600 feet on ...
An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be perplexingly increasing in size.
An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...
Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...
The paper argues that glaciers can store antibiotic resistance genes for long periods and that climate-driven melting may ...
Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...
As marine-terminating glaciers melt, the resulting freshwater is released at the seafloor, which mixes with salty seawater ...
As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...
High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...
Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...