When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

I have thought we were hovering high in the sky over a featureless icy plane below, before bumping down gently onto ice only a few metres below us. Crevasses – cracks in the surface of glaciers ...

On the Pamir Plateau in NW China's Xinjiang, the frozen surface of a lake has fractured into a network of cracks, resembling a natural jigsaw puzzle.

Lauren Jobe was skating on Portage Lake on Monday, Feb. 10, when she heard the glacier start cracking ... onto the ice, shattering it and triggering waves beneath the frozen surface.

Those cracks will cause the ice surface to be slightly unstable. With that the winds cause the ice to move around in a more eastern direction. "The winds will push the ice to the eastern half of the ...

With temperatures climbing into the 50s in some areas, the Coast Guard is warning people to stay off the ice or take precautions.