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Chemistry

Weird form of ‘dangling’ ice spotted in space for the first time

A type of ice that has only ever been seen in the lab has now been found in space by the James Webb Space Telescope, and understanding it could tell us more about the chemistry that led to life on Earth

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Environment

Warm water seeping under Antarctic ice sheets may accelerate melting

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PTG8E9 Snowplow removes snow off icy road in winter

Environment

Grit salt on our roads is killing freshwater wildlife. What can we do?

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Earth

Ice might be ubiquitous, but we are still discovering things about it

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Physics

Springy ice seen for the first time may explain how clouds make rain

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Part of the setup for creating medium density amorphous ice

Physics

Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls

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For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice rapidly melting. Researchers discovered that it wasn?t the rain that caused the melt, it was unusually warm ?atmospheric rivers? that swept along Greenland, bringing potent melt conditions when the melt season would normally be drawing to a close. Thanks to detailed measurements from the network of automatic weather stations on the ice set up by the Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland coupled with measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites in space helped researchers understand the exact processes and dynamics of how the ice melts.

Environment

Feedback loop in Greenland amplified ice melt from warm weather

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Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier

Environment

Base of the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than we thought

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Glacier in the Fitz Roy Mountain Range, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina.

Environment

Thin glaciers suggest Andes faces ‘peak water’ sooner than thought

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flexible ice

Physics

New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking

A single ice crystal formed into a thin strand can bend almost into a circle and then snap back into its original shape, making it the most elastic form of water ice ever made

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Earth

Ice memory: What ice cores tell us about Earth鈥檚 environmental history

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Environment

Exclusive: On board the mission to one of the world鈥檚 largest icebergs

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Physics

Physicists finally worked out why ice is slippery after 150 years

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Space

Ancient ice beneath the surface of comet 67P is softer than candyfloss

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