Thick ice that used to last through multiple summers has been in steep decline for three decades.
Published Mar 1, 2012
These color-coded maps show ice mass changes in the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 2004 to 2009.
Published Jun 1, 2011
A recent expedition revealed a new rift in Kilimanjaro’s northern ice field.
Published Nov 8, 2012
This pair of maps shows how the sea ice covering the Arctic at winter maximum in 2009 is younger than it was in the past.
Published Apr 10, 2009
Taken from a low-flying airplane on March 26, 2011, these detailed photos of Arctic sea ice show the richly varied texture in the ice floe.
Published Apr 1, 2011
When the ice melts or starts congealing, it masses into chunks like crushed ice in a cocktail. Then, ocean currents stir those chunks into a cyclone-like vortex.
Published Jul 21, 2016
NASA aircraft return to the Arctic to assess the health of the region’s ice.
Published May 3, 2012
Researchers working in Antarctica have found evidence of large-scale ice making at the bottom of that continent's massive ice sheets.
Published Apr 21, 2011
In 1984, there were 1.86 million square kilometers of old ice spread across the Arctic at its yearly minimum extent. In September 2016, there were only 110,000 square kilometers of old ice left.
Published Nov 4, 2016
A diamond-shaped piece of ice is a stranger amid thin ice.
Published Mar 1, 2017
This natural gatekeeper, which prevents sea ice from exiting the Arctic Ocean and drifting southward into Baffin Bay, was still intact in late May 2020.
Published Jun 3, 2020
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
Published Mar 3, 2014
A mixture of ice types exists where frozen water meets open water.
Published Mar 11, 2015
Scientists mapped the motion of Antarctica’s ice sheets and revealed unexpected patterns.
Published Aug 19, 2011
