This experiment uses a warm liquid on ice to explore how heat actually moves and dissipates. Instead of melting evenly, the ice reacts in unexpected patterns that reveal strange thermal behavior. It’s ...

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for centuries or even millennia. Those revelations are reshaping how I understand ...

This achievement led to the identification of a previously unknown crystallization pathway in water and resulted in the ...

When ice melts into water, it happens quickly, with the transition from solid to liquid being immediate. However, very thin ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn’s giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold ...

Imagine holding a narrow tube filled with salty water and watching it begin to freeze from one end. You might expect the ice ...

Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...

It's that time of year again, and ABC News is rolling out polar bear science to fearmonger about climate change.

Scientists are measuring a huge unknown in climate science: how much heat Antarctica emits into space. To do this, Earth ...

A new global study predicts when the world’s glaciers will vanish and shows how warming levels shape their survival.

Despite the promising recovery of lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, the fish face an uncertain future due to changing weather ...

Trump has shifted the U.S. approach to the Arctic, promoting oil and gas even as scientists have issued more dire warnings ...