Sanchez was on a “typical tourist trip to Iceland,” visiting the Vatnajokull glacier — Iceland’s largest ice cap — when she realized there was a children’s book in what she was witnessing. “We were on ...

On a map, have students locate Greenland and Antarctica on the map. Tell them that Greenland's continental ice sheet contains the second largest amount of frozen freshwater in the world, after ...

Two new books for children, each of which will be appreciated by adults as well, celebrate Alaska nature and the wonders, surprises, and great beauty to be discovered in our world. The two take ...

Understanding water and ice helps scientists study glaciers. Some glaciers contain water wells. Tell students that in this activity, they are going to investigate how ice and water can coexist.

Antarctica is the world's largest desert. It is also covered in ice sheets that are 4 kilometers thick on the eastern side of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and 2 kilometers thick on the west. So how ...

On March 22, the Saturday before the official start of the ACS Spring 2025 meeting, the American Chemical Society hosted a free, family-friendly event at the Logan Memorial Educational Campus in San ...

Mercury as depicted in fake colors that show the differences in composition on the surface.Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington Mercury, the closest planet to our sun and the second ...

Andean glaciers advanced during an acute period of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, new research has found.

Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...