Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the ... increasing the region’s albedo (its ability to reflect sunlight) and setting back seasonal ice melt by ...

A team of researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) used that ice cap to make surprising discoveries about it and what it tells us about Mars's interior. The research is published in the ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer ...

YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel now under construction here will be capable of smashing through sea ice up to 1.2 meters thick to reach the northern polar region to study sea ...

The planetary-scale freeze is thought to have been driven by ice sheet expansion triggering a climatic tipping point that led ...