Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Photos of Cracks, Bubbles and Ice
White cracks branch across deep blue ice, and pale bubbles hang frozen beneath the surface like scattered coins. Photographer Kristina Makee...
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Ice Formations & Frozen Landscapes
Explore ice formations, frozen landscapes and unusual winter scenes through stories and photography. Browse the details and shapes of the frozen world, then discover related collections on glaciers, icebergs and snowfall.
David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection: A Tabular Iceberg in the Weddell Sea
Pale sky, a sheer white wall of ice, silvery water and a block of deep shadow: Canadian photographer David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection, ...
Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Glassy Ice Plates at Duluth’s Brighton Beach
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of breaking glass when its ice starts to move. On 13 February 2016 Dawn M. LaPointe of Radiant...
Frozen Soap Bubbles: ZALUSKArt’s −15 °C Film and the Snow-Globe Effect
A clear soap bubble rests on fresh snow. Within seconds, feathery ice crystals appear on its skin, swirl around the sphere and knit together...
Frozen Flowers in Minnesota: Why Petals Shatter After a Night Outside
Leave a bouquet on a Minnesota porch on a January night and by morning it shatters like glass. That is the whole idea behind “Frozen Flower...
Boiling Water Into Snow: The Science of Hot Water in Extreme Cold
Toss a pot of boiling water into the air on a bitterly cold day and something magical happens: instead of splashing on the ground, it bursts...
Frozen Soap Bubbles at −15 °C in Warsaw: ZALUSKArt's Photos and the Science
When his three-year-old daughter refused to wear her jacket and asked how cold it really was, Warsaw photographer and filmmaker Pablo Zalus...
Steve Mandel’s Split-Level Iceberg Photos: Antarctica Above and Below
Steve Mandel's split-level photographs show an Antarctic iceberg twice in one frame: the snowy, sunlit ice above the sea and the vast b...
Utah Lake’s Mystery Ice Circle: The 2015 Frozen Lake Video
In December 2015 a short video from Utah Lake spread across the internet. A group of people walking out on a foggy, frozen lake came across...
Great Lakes Ice Volcanoes: How Waves Build Erupting Ice Cones
On a stormy winter day on the Great Lakes, a cone of ice on the shore suddenly blasts a plume of water and slush into the air. These “ice v...
If All the Ice Melted: Sea-Level Rise Maps and the Science Behind Them
Earth still holds more than five million cubic miles of ice. If every bit of it on land melted, the oceans would climb by roughly 65 to 70 ...
Frozen Water Balloon Ice Orbs: How to Make Coloured Ice Decorations
Fill balloons with coloured water, leave them out in the freezing cold, peel them away and you are left with a set of glowing ice orbs that...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Seas: Baikal, Abraham Lake and Frost Flowers
When water freezes, it can record its own story: methane bubbles stacked like coins under the surface, turquoise slabs pushed up by the win...
Niagara Falls in Winter: Frozen Spray, Ice Mounds and the 1848 Freeze
During the bitter cold of February 2015, Niagara Falls put on its winter show. Spray froze onto every railing, tree and rock, and the water...
Clear Frozen Lake in Slovakia's High Tatras: Walking on Transparent Ice
Two friends step out onto a frozen mountain lake in Slovakia's High Tatras, and the ice is so clear that every stone on the bottom show...
Frozen America: US Cities and Niagara Falls in the 2014 Polar Vortex
Ice-choked waterfronts, snow-bound parks and a half-frozen Niagara Falls: in the winter of 2013–14, a mass of Arctic air broke loose from th...
Toddler Discovers a Frozen Puddle: Why Ice Fascinates and Slips
A little girl in pink spots a frozen puddle, crouches, pokes and steps onto it, and her face says everything: the ground has changed and sh...
Camping on a Floating Ice Floe: Anton Pankov's Don River Film
A small group of friends, their camping gear and a slab of ice drifting down a Russian river: Anton Pankov's short film "MEN vs OF...
30 Photos of Frozen Things: Ice Storms, Lake Michigan and the Polar Vortex
In the first week of January 2014, Arctic air spilled deep into the United States and Canada, and cities from Minnesota to Georgia woke to r...
Frozen Trampoline in Slow Motion: Why the Ice Shatters
After a freeze, a backyard trampoline can end up wearing a solid sheet of ice. Jump on it, and the bouncy mat flexes while the ice on top sh...