The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of ...

Corn snow forms during repeated freeze-thaw cycles, which are common in the spring. During the day, temperatures punch above ...

Tonight you can expect another round of mixed precipitation and mountain snow across the region, lasting through Wednesday.

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

The striking image from the International Space Station captures the rain shadow effect, where a part of a mountain range is ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

PG&E, which is dependent on the snow melt to help generate hydro-electricity around the state of California, conducted the ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 per ...

Wrapping glaciers in reflective geotextiles (polypropylene, for example) can reduce ice melt by 50–70% per year 9. Such synthetic blankets are already being used commercially — for instance ...

A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain ...