Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

Penguins walking across sea ice by a large iceberg in front of Thwaites Ice Shelf, a large, unstable mass of ice that extends from the West Antarctic ice sheet into the sea. Most of the Earth’s fresh ...

KUTV — "Expedition: Greenland" is a feature-length documentary that follows a daring journey across Greenland’s remote and largely unexplored ice sheet. A team of seven adventurers sets out to be the ...

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major ...

This summer, the U.S. and much of the world have been pummeled by floods, fires and heat waves. Knowing what climate risks come next depends, to a large extent, on what happens in the most desolate ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast ...

Why it's incredible: The cave was created by lava from Mount Fuji and now holds giant ice pillars. The Narusawa Ice Cave is a lava tube that is brimming with icicles and ice pillars at the base of ...

Despite its overwhelmingly icy appearance, Antarctica is actually a solid continent of rocky mountains and now experts know what it looks like “naked” under its huge ice sheet. Unlike the Arctic, ...