How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

But this is just one surveyed area. More surveys are needed to truly grasp the extent of this vast ice cover on Earth. "We ...

The extent of sea ice stretching across Earth’s polar regions reached an ... because you don’t have this protective cover of the sea ice,” he said. Last month’s record low for the global ...

resulting in a frigid "Snowball Earth." But they've argued quite a bit about just how icy the planet got — specifically, whether thick glacial ice covered the entire globe, all the way down to ...

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined since scientists started tracking it half a century ago. | Credit ...

Global sea ice cover reached a historic low in February ... Scientists say the current period is likely the warmest the Earth has been for the last 125,000 years.

Basically, as polar ice melts into the ocean, there's less mass overall at the poles and the middle of the planet becomes a little heavier, hence slowing down Earth's rotation. "If you have a ...

Mild temperatures this winter have impacted ice cover on all of the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior, which has less than five per cent ice cover, which is not far off the normal for this ...

Mild temperatures this winter have impacted ice cover on all of the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior, whch has less than five per cent ice cover, which is not far off the normal for this time ...