The Andes mountain range, stretching over 8,900 kilometers along South America's western edge, serves as the continent's ...

Pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study the freezing process in excised leaf tissues of several Solanum species. The amount of liquid water in the partially frozen leaf ...

Tidewater glaciers, like those seen by millions of tourists in Alaska's Glacier Bay, flow down from the land and terminate at the ocean, where warming water and air temperatures can expedite melting, ...

Scientists have long been warning of the risks posed by melting ice sheets. But a study released today offers the most definitive word yet from NASA and other researchers that parts of the ice sheet ...

Researchers have discovered a new phenomenon of so-called metastability in a liquid phase. This state is common in supercooled liquids, which are liquids that cool below the freezing point without ...

Antarctica holds nearly 90% of all the fresh water on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is on the west side of the continent and is being threatened by warming sea surface temperatures. Dr. Pat Abbott has ...