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As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—covered an area of 705,221 km² and held approximately 121,728 billion tons of ice worldwide. Since then, ...

Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers ...

The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a rate of up to 0.13 mm per year, indicating a cold and highly viscous upper mantle. This slow deformation suggests that Mars's interior ...

Together, the group has been able to determine the Red Planet’s interior structure and assess the age of its northern polar ice cap. The north pole of Mars is covered by a 1000-kilometre-wide, ...

The 2025 Ice Alaska Festival, home to the World Ice Art Championships, is in full swing at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds, drawing international ice sculptors and local spectators alike. Despite ...

Since Antarctica has had a large ice cap for around 34 million years, the remote islands around Iceberg Alley have seen countless icebergs pass by. South Orkney is one of these islands, and ...

Ice caps grow as snow falls on the top and gravity pulls them slowly towards the sea. There, they lose large volumes of ice via melting and calving of icebergs. If the ice cap growth keeps pace ...

New research reveals that the cool conditions necessary for ice caps to form on Earth are rare in the planet’s history and depend on a complex interplay of factors. A team of scientists from the ...

BUT THE ICE IS MELTING FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE. IT’S OUTSTRIPPED THE GENERAL WARMING OF THE OCEAN, AND IT’S CONTRIBUTING MORE ...

With each season, there is something special to admire. During the winter, that includes snow, of course. But I would argue that ice is very much underappreciated. To be fair, there are a lot of good ...