What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities, some in distant corners of the universe, others right here on Earth.

These pools may weaken the ice shelf if the water leaks through fissures into the ice. NASA Earth ... for melt extent. Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half ...

This strategy would pump water either into or out of the cracks between the ice and the Earth ... melt at the present day,” he noted. Aerosol injections, shooting particles made of sulfur ...

The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as much as elsewhere. The Greenland and Antarctic ice ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate ...

A hunt for mountain lions along the Gila River in New Mexico led the hunter, Charles Elliott, and his guide on a chase ...

Winter storms are about to blitz through the eastern half of the United States at a frenetic ... of the Northeast through Thursday. Hazardous ice capable of knocking out power and turning roads ...

As the world warms, Camp Century — which is located in one of the most remote spots on Earth, about 1,500 kilometers north ... the remains of the abandoned base could be exposed by melting ice and ...

Talquin reports that more than half of its customers ... The snow and ice won’t stick around for very long — most of it should be melted by the early afternoon. Patches of ice could remain ...

Our frozen worlds of ice and snow are vital to maintaining Earth’s equilibrium by reflecting sunlight back into space. But with climate change, our ice, snow and permafrost is melting ... than normal, ...

This region has historically served as Earth’s freezer. Its permanently frozen ground, called permafrost, stores more than half of all ... tracking wildfires, melting ice, and growing plants.