Poor or unstable ice can lead to more newborn seals ending up in the water before they are ready and dying. Seals may also be ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the ...

Somewhere in my childhood, between begrudgingly following my parents from restaurant to restaurant and spending my first allowance on dim sum, xiao long bao became my go-to dumpling order. If you’re ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Some of my most distinct memories as a child were out on the ice with my dad, standing on a frozen lake, bundled up in my warmest gear and daydreaming about the world of possibilities under my feet.

Scientists say Lake Michigan’s winter season is getting shorter, disrupting fish populations, nutrient cycles and even summer ...

Ice over flowing water is never safe. No matter how stable it looks, as long as there is water moving ... the browns and green of the silt and algae around the springs. Indistinct but still ...