What Is Pancake Ice? Winter's Floating Frozen Disks

Discover the fascinating formation of pancake ice, a striking winter phenomenon where frigid temperatures and churning waves ...

Floating ice on Hudson River impacts ferry service

Floating ice has taken a hold of the Hudson River in New York as temperatures dipped to dangerously low levels, and will ...

Ice Pancakes Float Off of Lake Erie's Crystal Beach

White chunks of ice were seen floating on Lake Erie from the coast of Crystal Beach, Ontario, on Friday.This footage captured by Denis Kreze shows pancakes of ice bobbing on the water. Credit: Denis K ...

The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

Greenland, a paradise where mountains of ice float in the sea and the sun shines at midnight

Greenland, a land of ice and midnight sun, defies easy categorization, blending European political ties with North American geography. Shaped by its vast ice sheet and polar climate, life here adapts ...