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Swiss glaciers lost more than 5% of their remaining ice over the 2026 melt season, the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Swiss Academy of Sciences' Commission for Cryosphere…
Antarctica is very likely committed to losing ice over the rest of this century, meaning the loss is already locked in by warming that has happened, even if emissions fall sharply. Yucheng Lin of…
Around midday on March 12 and 14, 2024, at the end of the Chilean summer, Millie Spencer and Robert Clasing flew a small drone over the bare ice of a volcano in Chile's Ñuble region. The wind over…
Joey J. Voermans and Alexander V. Babanin of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report that wave buoys moored in a patch of open water inside East Antarctic sea ice recorded wind-driven waves…
In a laboratory study published Sept. 25 in Nature Communications, microbes from the soil that thaws above permafrost each summer sharply raised the greenhouse gas output of formerly frozen ground…
A meltwater river on Greenland's Petermann Ice Shelf cut its bed below sea level in most summers from 2014 to 2018, letting seawater run inland to form an estuary that broke its link to the ocean…
The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that Arctic sea ice most likely reached its annual low on Sept. 12 at 4.60 million square kilometers, tying this year with 2008, 2010 and 2025 for the…
Somewhere under Antarctica there is a line where the ice stops resting on rock and begins to float. It is not a tidy line. Twice a day the tide lifts the ice a little and the sea works its way in…
How much ice Greenland and Antarctica have lost is not one measurement. It is dozens. One group weighs the ice from orbit, with satellites that sense small changes in the pull of Earth's gravity.…
A glacier can leave the map before it leaves the mountain. Under the loose rock at the head of a valley there may still be ice. But nobody can trace a line around it anymore, so no line gets drawn.…
Ice does not keep up with the weather. When the air around a glacier warms, the glacier does not shrink that year, or that decade, to fit the climate it now lives in. It keeps flowing, thinning and…
Winters that brought less snow than normal shortened the snow season in Italy's mountains by as much as a month and cut summer runoff by roughly half, according to a study of 38 catchments across the…