Polar ice regions are as crucial to Earth’s systems and can give us vital information about the future of the planet.

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Melting ice is diluting the ocean, disrupting the vital ocean current. Taimoor Sohail and Bishakhdatta Gayen report ...

The Fragile Beauty of the Arctic Ice Arctic ice is renowned for its shimmering beauty, forming a colossal frozen cap that crowns our planet. Its reflective surface dances with light, resembling an ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made ...

exacerbating the effects of climate change. This is known as the ice-albedo feedback. Surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are warming more rapidly than anywhere else on the planet. The Arctic ice ...

The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures ... Thanks to the influence of sea ice on the jet stream the changes could affect weather in the UK.

The easy answer is a deep southward dip in the polar ... cap on our winter temperatures." That could all change and accelerate warmer winter temperatures in the U.S., he said, depending on where ...

where you see such a stark change," Lehner said. And what happens in the Arctic trickles down to all of us. "If the sea ice disappears, the Arctic will warm faster and the planet will warm faster ...