Ice floating on water seems to be a common occurrence; however, one of the most astonishing and crucial phenomena in nature is the fact that it happens. In general, all matter behaves in such a way ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Floating ice has taken a hold of the Hudson River in New York as temperatures dipped to dangerously low levels, and will continue to stay this way for days. These conditions have impacted ferry ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 to 5 meters (13 to 16 feet). The WAIS abuts the Ross Ice Shelf, the world's ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...