New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

In the latest attack on science by the Trump administration, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center will no ...

Water, the essence of life. Like life itself it is in a constant flux. In it's different states of aggregation it reflects ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Scientists have found that water ice in space isn't completely disordered as once believed. New research shows that up to 25% ...

A satellite image shows snow and lake ice blanketing Chicago and Lake Michigan. NASA Earth Observatory/USGS. The image also highlights an expanse of white atop Lake Michigan—an area of ice that ...

A giant, impossible icicle. Starkly exposed mountain slopes. Billion-year-old rocks behind a lone iceberg. And the view from within a glacial tunnel. The main image shows ice that has formed ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

Strange signals from outer space are constantly reaching Earth, hailing from sources like pulsars, quasars, and supernovas. In Antarctica, a signal like this recently seemed to materialize out of ...

But when the snow goes, the scenery doesn’t. There are plenty of fantastic high-altitude adventures in the Alps that don’t rely on perfect powder. Alpine areas are promoting themselves as year ...

That is 1.32 sq km less than the median coverage at other March peaks between 1981 and 2010, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Centre at the University of Colorado at Boulder –a ...