Scientists have some novel ideas to save the ice caps. Here are the most out-of-the-box suggestions - Scientists say glacier ...

This strategy would pump water either into or out of the cracks between the ice and the Earth’s rocky crust to control that friction and potentially slow down a glacier’s movement. A third ...

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The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

Everywhere on Earth ice is changing ... more water flows to the seas from glaciers and ice caps, and ocean water warms and expands in volume. This combination of effects has played the major ...

However, the root cause could be climate change, with the melting of the ice caps possibly slowing the rate of Earth’s rotation. Scientists know Earth’s rate of rotation is, over the long term ...

Exactly where the axis of rotation meets Earth’s surface moves by about 30 feet (10 meters) per hundred years. According to the paper, that’s down to both the melting of the ice caps and the m ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

which slows Earth's rotation. The second is changes in the ice caps that covered Northern Canada and Scandinavia during the last Ice Age, which made Earth more spherical, speeding up its rotation ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) said Mirai II will be tasked with measuring the thickness and shape of the sea ice it cuts through as well as studying ...