Researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive -- if less dramatic -- explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ice cap on Mars' south pole.

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING ...

The problem is clear: the world’s glaciers are melting, causing sea levels to rise. As global temperatures soar due to the ...

New research by a team of top ice and climate scientists debunks some speculative technological climate fixes for preserving ...

When I came across that news at three in the morning, I nearly spilled my coffee on the keyboard—there are actually signs of ...

A swirling mound of ice riddled with dark spiral troughs crowns the north pole of Mars, seen here in a new mosaic from ESA’s Mars Express. The mosaic comprises 57 separate images taken by the High ...

Greenlandic ice is teeming with life, both on the surface and underneath. There are microscopic organisms that until recently science had no idea existed. There is even evidence to suggest that the ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A native Greenland entrepreneur on Monday presented the Arctic island's first domestic beer, brewed on water at least 2,000 years old and melted from Greenland's vast ice ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists said on ...