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As glaciers and ice sheets keep dwindling, scientists are proposing everything they can think of.

In praise of an excellent idea with a long, complicated history.

To chill like a peasant, attend a farcical play and wrestle with your friends.

Before refrigeration, New York's ice-delivery men inspired raunchy jokes.

Atlas Obscura readers recommend their favorite over-the-top water features from across the globe.

Only four such sets are known to exist.

To chill like a marauding Norseman, drop your sword and take up these ancient winter sports.

At the South Pole, the freezer is just a hole in the wall to the ice outside.

Used from time immemorial, this traditional technology is now fading away.

For decades, Mark Edward Harris captured the calm and intimacy of onsens.

For three generations, the Hansens have made summer sno-ball season in New Orleans.

Temazcales helped indigenous people let off steam, until colonialism came along.

New research reveals that the hundreds of anonymous dead spanned both continents and centuries.

When life gives you frozen bison, make dinner.

These artificial mountains were fast, thrilling, and probably very dangerous.

This summer, chill like an ancient lady and sweat, recite poetry, and swig wine.

Fleeing conflict in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, they've created a rare melting pot in India.

The aloha shirt has many possible inventors and a long, fraught cultural history.