03.15.12 - A NASA ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft will fly a number of high-altitude missions this spring to validate the accuracy of a new laser altimeter.› View Photos
02.29.12 - A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the floating ice cap that covers the Arctic Ocean.
11.01.11 - NASA's Operation IceBridge makes the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving in progress at Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
11.09.11 - A multidisciplinary, international team of researchers is heading this month to an isolated edge of Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier, to determine how the ocean is melting away the glacier’s underbelly.
10.04.11 - Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record, narrowly avoiding a new low.
08.18.11 - NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.
08.08.11 - Scientists observed for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away.
07.25.11 - An international group of scientists has detailed glacier ice loss following the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002.
06.21.11 - Scientists embark this week on the second and final leg of a NASA oceanographic field campaign to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems.
04.21.11 - NASA scientists conducting an airborne Arctic campaign to monitor changes in sea ice and ice sheet thickness have a new tool -- a second aircraft.
03.08.11 - The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study.
02.24.11 - Mark Flanner at the University of Michigan and his collaborators used satellite data to measure how much changes in snow and ice in the Northern Hemisphere have contributed to rising temperatures in the last 30 years.
02.09.10 - The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent ever recorded for January (since satellite records began).
01.20.10 - Beneath the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, scientists have found a deepwater channel -- a likely pathway for warm water to reach the glacier’s underbelly and melt it from below.
12.15.10 - New studies reveal mechanisms driving ice loss in West Antarctica, with implications for improving predictions of sea level rise.
11.09.10 - A NASA analysis of satellite data challenges previously held beliefs about how the Arctic loses its older and thicker 'multiyear' sea ice.
10.06.10 - Sea ice has reached its minimum extent for 2010, measuring in at the third-lowest extent since satellite measurements began.
09.13.10 - While the 2010 minimum extent of arctic sea ice remains to be seen, NASA's Aqua satellite captured this snapshot on Sept. 3.
08.12.10 - A new NASA satellite image shows the continued movement of a massive iceberg that broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier on Aug. 5.
08.09.10 - A chunk of ice some 97 square miles in size broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier on August 5. The resulting iceberg is the Arctic's largest since 1962.