Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ice patches. As temperatures rise across the world, glacial archaeologists ...

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the ...