Debangshu Banerjee, a recent graduate of the Centre for Earth Observation Sciences at the University of Manitoba, with Dr.

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The sound of summer is ice cracking as you pour yourself a cold drink. Hearing that snap and pop cools everybody down. But why does ice crack? Periodic Videos explains the reason why ice straight from ...

The helicopter heads out over McMurdo Sound, crossing a monotonous expanse of sea ice broken only by a smattering of icebergs and occasional clusters of Weddell seals. At last, off to one side, you ...

New research has analyzed melt patterns on the Greenland Ice Sheet. This study determined that cracks are opening up faster as the sheet melts in response to climate change. The researchers used three ...

Drone captures Arctic ice cracking abnormally early near isolated city Near a Russian town that sits more than a degree and a half above the Arctic Circle, aerial footage captured over the last ...

Ice that has trapped a Russian ship with 74 people on board in Antarctica appeared to be cracking up on Sunday, raising hopes for a rescue as a powerful Australian icebreaker approached the stranded ...