Ice rescue instructor Luc Mehl says the community is lucky the calving did not happen over the weekend, and he hopes Alaskans ...

"I thought it would be cool if a piece fell off, thinking it would be one-twentieth of what actually fell off." ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

Two ice skaters were stranded and self-rescued from a glacier chunk that fell onto the ice in Portage Lake, Alaska, on Monday ...

The record for the world's oldest ice was actually broken not long ago when researchers in Antarctica managed to retrieve ice ...

A window of cold and clear weather has drawn hundreds of people to skate, bike and walk on the lake ice in recent days.

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

The discovery represents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in permafrost — ground that has been frozen for at least 2 years straight — in the Arctic, researchers report in ...

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Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

Buried within the permafrost, researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ever found in the Arctic. The glacier piece became visible after 2009 landslides in the area. Researchers were ...