There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week research stint. "You know you're very much alone," says Mejía, a ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week ...

Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

Models of sea level rise based on our understanding of how Earth's ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere could be incorrect, a new study has found. This could have significant implications for ...

Nepal's base camp on Mount Everest is being moved further down the mountain, due to climate change. The site is located on top of the thinning Khumbu Glacier, which has become hazardous for climbers.

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