The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise ...

Leonora Jane Bigham Sulzberger, 86, of Hampton, Virginia, died peacefully at home on January 6, 2025. Jane was born in Gettysburg, on May 5, 1938, to Leonora Camilla Groves Bigham and Franklin ...

forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal ...

In the wake of the alleged attack, Coles announced on Wednesday that knives would be taken off their shelves nationwide due to increased levels of aggression and violence. Coles is removing the ...

Whether you’re a newbie to the sport of ice fishing or a seasoned angler, everybody needs that one ice fishing rod to handle multiple species. These versatile ice rods are sensitive enough for sunfish ...

The Kenya Ice Lions have made vast strides since the team was founded in 2016 In Nairobi, the average temperature is more than 20C, yet there is one place in Kenya's capital where it does not even ...

Scientists discovered that temperate glacier ice flows differently than previously thought, requiring a change in Glen’s flow law’s stress exponent from 3 or 4 to 1.0. This adjustment suggests that ...

Black ice is a well-known weather slang term for patchy ice that cannot be seen on roadways or other surfaces. In its typical form, black ice is completely transparent, only called "black" because ...

A woman takes a photo inside a cave at Minnesota's Ice Castles at The Minnesota State Fair Grounds in Falcon Heights on Sunday. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The continent’s ice shelves, large floating extensions of ice over the ocean, are of particular interest. Observations show that many of these ice shelves are thinning due to melting from below, with ...

Huw Griffiths Far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there’s more life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, published this week. During an ...

I was on the first flight on December 10, which began with Dr. Choon-ki Lee installing a new GPS station on a large piece of ice at the front of Nansen Ice Shelf that looks ready to calve off into a ...