Then “Pack Ice Season” arrived. That was the term the department of tourism was encouraging citizens to use in an attempt to ...

Eventually it creates a sort of moving river of ice, called a glacier. The ice does not melt much at high altitudes, but does when it moves down to warmer levels. Usually there is a balance ...

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures or cracks that open in glaciers where ice begins to flow faster. The researchers say that crevasses are also getting bigger and deeper where ice is flowing ...

Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when asked to describe a research paper about glacier ice flow that has just been published in the journal Science. First, said the ...

The resulting data could lead to more accurate models of temperate glacier ice and better predictions of glacier flow and sea-level rise. Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when ...

The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent weeks dragging their sleds across the rough pack ... glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse"), and Antarctic sea ice has ...