ice on thin ice

Someday, I would like to write a happy story about ice. Today is not that day.

Arctic ice is seasonal. It melts down in the summer sun and relative warmth, then freezes back up when fall’s chill…

Twelve years ago, I strode by Clark Glacier on the flanks of South Sister, the tallest of a cluster of three…

Arctic sea ice shrank to its second lowest level on record, researchers announced on Monday. Sorry.

There have been some pretty freaky things happening in the Arctic this year, with historic levels of ice melt, absurd…

As the world’s ice sheets have been cracking up and melting down, climatologists have warned that further decimation…

The Arctic has seen some weird happenings as the climate crisis reshapes the region, but among the most dramatic was…

At Earther, we’ve been following the historic extent of ice melt in the Arctic this summer pretty closely. But not…

Antarctica’s coast is home to roughly 50 ice shelves—floating ledges of ice that jut out from the edge of the…

Every summer as the Arctic warms up, seasonal highways open on the ocean, allowing sea ice to migrate southward and…

If you thought the heat wave-induced melting of half of Greenland’s surface last week was alarming, wait until you…

Glaciers and other icy landscapes are often named after the scientists who first set eyes on them. But it isn’t just…

A year and a half ago, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, satellite images of the frozen continent revealed…

By trapping bubbles of atmosphere as it freezes, ice imprisons the climate secrets of Earth’s past. The trick is…

When scientists talk about Greenland losing ice, they are talking, in no small part, about Jakobshavn glacier. A…

For about six to 12 hours as the sun dips low on the horizon in the late spring and early summer, an Antarctic ice…

An Antarctic ice shelf that’s been cracking up for years is now very close to giving birth to an iceberg roughly 30…

Something strange is happening to the northernmost city in the United States. It’s the dead of winter, and…

The glaciers blanketing the high mountains of central Asia are smaller than we thought, according to a new analysis…

It’s no secret that Earth’s ice sheets are shrinking as temperatures rise. But this planetary meltdown isn’t just a…