A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

Even as winter takes hold in the Arctic, sea ice there is growing sluggishly. In Antarctica, summer’s arrival has driven sea ...

North Pole Our first stop ... in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Rabe Crater Neukum Crater ...

A new study shows that we're skating on thin ice when it comes to Antarctica's ice sheets. Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble. While ice melting is nothing new, harmful carbon pollution ...

Related: Water on Mars: Exploration & evidence Eskers are long, gravelly ridges left by running water, and their presence ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly ... Dyke, A. S. "An outline of North American deglaciation with emphasis on central and Northern Canada," in Quaternary Glaciations: Extent and Chronology ...

Science is trying to understand how runaway warming in the Arctic can trigger extreme weather events like the Valencia flash ...

Antarctica, which is nearly four times the size of the United States, is almost entirely covered by a miles-thick layer of ...

Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate of ice loss across the region.

A recent study reveals a surprising finding: a significant amount of meltwater is temporarily retained within the Greenland Ice Sheet during the summer months. A recent study published in Nature revea ...

We're armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers ... Warm, salty water flows from the tropical Atlantic north toward the Pole in surface currents like the Gulf Stream.

New research suggests that ancient Mars, despite its icy conditions, once had rivers, lakes, and even a vast ...