THE past winter has been unusually cold and stormy in Ontario, and, as a result, an uneven strip of ice 100 to 200 yards wide has accumulated along the lake shore, sometimes forming mounds twenty ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

Ice climbing is arguably the most treacherous mountain sport. It takes place in tough, often subzero conditions, on extremely smooth surfaces with few holds.

Their roar can be heard from a distance in the summer, while winter bestows silence and one notices them only when standing close-by. The water they are made of does not flow anymore, but the cold has ...

The mountain has undergone dramatic changes over the past century, with 42 percent of its glacier ice vanishing since 1896. At least one glacier has completely disappeared.

This article was originally published with the title “ An Ice Mountain in Oregon ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 2 No. 19 ... Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, ...

But because of an uneven winter this year, one Rocky Mountain town is having to work extra hard to keep its ice castles, well, icy. Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce has this postcard.

Because the mountain range is completely covered in ice, it’s one of the least understood tectonic features on Earth. For scientists, it’s deeply puzzling.