ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Check and measure before walking on the ice. As you probably know, the last few winter seasons, we have not been very cold. The arctic air that is needed to generate ice on the ...

It’s not usually a good idea to walk on frozen ponds, rivers, or lakes in Missouri and Arkansas, but it is tempting when it gets cold. In a Facebook post, the Taney County Ambulance District reminds ...

Rochester, N.Y. – As you probably know, the last few winter seasons we have not been very cold. The arctic air that is needed to generate ice on the surrounding lakes has been very limited. However, ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Arctic Sounder in May 2022. When late Utqiagvik Elder Warren Matumeak began to document whaling trails, he sketched a handwritten map of the ...

Data from NASA's Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing Jupiter's moon Europa. Using the spacecraft's Microwave Radiometer (MWR), ...

MUNISING, MI -- Park rangers have been fielding questions about walking across a frozen portion of Lake Superior. Their answer is a firm “no.” Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has been fielding ...

A cutting-edge study harnesses the power of spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technology to accurately measure sea ice thickness, a critical parameter for ...

This summer, a group of scientists and students — as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker — set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed ...