AuthorAround 1.1 billion people live around lakes that freezemktotoro/iStockphoto/Getty Images Like melting sea ice and glaciers, the frozen sheets that cover lakes are vanishing, too. Lake ice loss has accelerated…
AuthorJames Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking research vessel S. A. Agulhas II (pictured below). It was part…
AuthorSea ice in the Weddell Sea, AntarcticaSergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea ice has reached near-record low levels. This reinforces concerns that human-caused climate change…
AuthorAn ice shelf on the Weddell Sea in AntarcticaSergio Pitamitz/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Rising land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet could slow ice loss and reduce sea-level rise…
AuthorQueshque glacier in Peru is retreating because of global heatingEmilio Mateo/Aspen Global Change Institute Mountain glaciers in the Andes are almost certainly the smallest they have been for at least…
AuthorBroken sea ice in Lancaster Sound, part of the Northwest PassageAlison Cook Shipping companies have anticipated that melting sea ice will open a shorter route through the Canadian Arctic, but…
The ice was found in the Chamaeleon I Cloud, a star-forming regionNASA, ESA, K. Luhman and T. Esplin (Pennsylvania State Uni), et al./ESO/Gladys Kober/Catholic Uni of America Fluffy ice that…
