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Fairlee, Vermont

Lake Morey Skate Trail

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

Artifacts from Boca.

Truckee, California

Boca

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Housekibaco's kakigori with caramel milk syrup, raspberries, and—in a nod to a local Nara specialty—persimmon-leaf tea meringue.

In the Home of Japan's Ice Deity, the Art of Kakigori Reaches New Heights

Inside one man's quest to bring frozen glory back to Nara.

Florentyna Leow November 5, 2021

Dark dust devil trails crisscross frigid dunes and gullies in the southern highlands of Mars.

Massive Dust Devils Leave Their Mark Across Eerie Dunes

Often associated with Earth’s hottest places, these whirling columns show up on all seven continents—and beyond.

Gemma Tarlach November 5, 2021

Podcast: Martian Meteorites and Greek Columns With the AO Places Team

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team September 21, 2021

A 1,500-year-old pile of argali sheep skulls and horn curls, perhaps intentionally stacked by ancient hunters, melts from a glacier margin in western Mongolia.

Mongolia's Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts

Researchers scramble to find and study everyday items preserved for millennia and now at risk.

William Taylor September 20, 2021

Skarpnäcks Gård, Sweden

Jättegrytan i Skarpnäck (Skarpnäck Giant's Kettle)

This hole formed by a glacier is the largest and best-preserved of its kind in Stockholm.

Part of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960.

The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years Ago

It didn't go well.

Paul Bierman August 30, 2021

In a satellite image of the Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner, captured on August 21, 2021, pale blue meltwater streams across ice or collects in slushy depressions. The deeper blue areas are meltwater lakes with depths up to about 30 feet.

Ghostly Satellite Image Captures the Arctic ‘Losing Its Soul’

In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous gray?

Gemma Tarlach August 27, 2021

In 2010, through a narrow hole in Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, researchers found thousands sea anemones clinging to the underside of the ice—a mysterious species, new to science.

Exploring Antarctica’s Upside-Down World

Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of feet thick, strange communities eke out a living, while researchers race to study them before they disappear.

Douglas Fox August 9, 2021

In high alpine terrain, sun and dry air can turn snow straight into water vapor.

In Hot, Dry Weather, Snow Can Disappear Straight Into the Atmosphere

A different process than evaporation, sublimation turns snow and ice directly into a gas.

Steven R. Fassnacht August 2, 2021

Based on data acquired by one of the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on May 15, 2021, this false-color image shows Alaska's Yukon River Delta during early spring thaw, including a blue halo of lingering sea ice.

Why Does the Yukon Delta Always Look So Trippy?

The Alaska delta, one of the world's largest, is a ‘mosaic’ environment best visualized with a psychedelic palette.

Gemma Tarlach June 28, 2021

Blue ice field

Allan Hills

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

Ice Cave of Bixby State Preserve

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Podcast: Grasshopper Glacier

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team April 8, 2021

The entrance was made facing the direction that allowed in the least amount of warmth.

Gyeongju, South Korea

Gyeongju Seokbinggo

An early Korean refrigerator.

Luleå Ice Roads

Explore the frozen river and take a walk to a nearby island on some of the longest ice roads in Sweden.

Ice farmers' tasks include "dagger mitigation"—hacking away at icicles that could hurt climbers.

The Intrepid Ice Farmers of Ouray, Colorado

Cultivating an impressive swath of climbable ice calls for maintaining water pipes and attacking "daggers."

Alisha McDarris March 17, 2021