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Ice-Proof Coating for Big Structures Relies on a ‘Beautiful Demonstration of Mechanics’

April 30, 2019

The spray-on coatings cause ice to fall away from structures—regardless of their size—with just the force of a li...

'Catastrophic' Breeding Failure at One of World's Largest Emperor Penguin Colonies

April 26, 2019

Until recently, the Halley Bay colony was the second largest in the world

The Oldest Ice on Earth May Be Able to Solve Puzzle of the Planet’s Climate History

April 10, 2019

A European research consortium wants to drill a 1.5-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica

Surface Lakes Cause Antarctic Ice Shelves to ‘Flex’

February 13, 2019

The filling and draining of meltwater lakes has been found to cause a floating Antarctic ice shelf to flex, potentially threa...

Breakthrough Reported in Ice-Repelling Materials

January 21, 2019

The work has implications for aircraft, power transmission lines, and more

New Technique More Accurately Reflects Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice

April 9, 2018

Study by UChicago researchers could improve climate forecasts and understanding

Researchers Find Landscape Ridges May Hold Clues about Ice Age and Climate Change

March 26, 2018

A high-resolution laser helped to unveil scientific clues that were lying in plain sight and yet remarkably went unnotic...

North American Ice Sheet Decay Changed Antarctic Climate

February 7, 2018

Overall, the study highlights that changes in the Earth's climate system can be linked across vast distances

Researchers Capture Oldest Ice Core Ever Drilled Outside the Polar Regions

December 14, 2017

The 1,000+ feet of ice may contain more than half a million years of climate history

Sea-Level Rise Projections Made Hazy by Antarctic Instability

December 13, 2017

Scientists should have a much better understanding in a few decades how high the sea level could rise, Rutgers-led study says...

Arctic Sea Ice Loss and the Eurasian Winter Cooling Trend: Is There a Link?

December 11, 2017

Do the simulations with less sea ice or warmer SSTs produce the cooler temperatures seen over Eurasia in the last decade, or ...

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Could Dry out California

December 5, 2017

California’s winter precipitation has decreased over the last two decades, with the 2012-2016 drought being one of the ...

Research Shows Ice Sheets as Large as Greenland's Melted Fast in a Warming Climate

November 13, 2017

The melting of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet likely caused about 20 feet of sea level rise and big changes in ocean temperature a...

Scientists Log Newfound Understanding of Water’s Responses to Changing Temperatures

October 18, 2017

Understanding the dynamics of ice crystallization—otherwise known as ice formation—is vital in not only climate r...

New Study Validates East Antarctic Ice Sheet Should Remain Stable Even If Western Ice Sheet Melts

August 21, 2017

The study's findings are significant, given that some predict the West Antarctic ice sheet could melt quickly due to global w...

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