Lakes are essential to ecosystems, providing freshwater, supporting biodiversity and offering crucial habitat for fish and ...

Water frozen in the darkness of space doesn't appear to behave the way we thought. A new research effort using computer ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

New research reveals Antarctic sea ice has hit record lows three times since 2017, creating cascading effects on global ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

Retreating glaciers - rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms - are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...