Whether it's the cubes in your cocktail or a raft for Arctic seals, floating ice is a basic fact of nature we may take for granted. Floating ice is "such a fundamental fact of the world, it's hard to ...

Icebergs float on water because the underlying liquid water has a higher density than the iceberg. Liquid water itself has ...

Harbor seals in Alaska’s icy fjords rely on icebergs calved from glaciers as critical habitats for giving birth, raising pups, and molting. A recent study reveals how climate-driven changes in glacier ...

An astronaut just snapped stunning photos of giant icebergs floating in the South Atlantic from space. As Earth continues to warm, more and more chunks of ice are breaking off glaciers and ice sheets ...

Research unearthed new information to help scientists better understand circulation patterns of ocean water around glaciers. In the summers of 2014 and 2019, a group of pioneers in glacial research ...