Mount Vinson, Antarctica Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November ...

Cryospheric science is the interdisciplinary study of permafrost, snow and ice, primarily on the surface of the Earth, but also on other planets and moons. The cryosphere is an integral part of ...

The helicopter crashed in bad weather at 1am UK time, 120 miles north of Patriot Hills on the northern section of the Ronnie Ice Shelf. A satellite signal was picked up from the distress beacon on ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

After eight months trapped in a whirlpool in the Southern Ocean, the world’s largest iceberg is on the move again — and potentially on a path to hit the island of South Georgia. The island ...

A space mission to an asteroid has returned extremely delicate salts not previously observed in extraterrestrial materials. An analysis of these salts helps to establish the history of water in ...

Ice streams move due to tiny ice quakes Dynamics of Greenland's ice decrypted Date: February 6, 2025 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ...

When Andreas Fichtner unspooled a fiber-optic cable into a deep hole in Greenland’s ice, he wasn’t expecting to discover a whole new way that glaciers move. Even when the cable started sending ...

Though some snow is possible with this system, the main weather threat will be freezing rain, and thus ice, forecasters said. The ice on the roads could lead to dangerous to "impossible" travel ...