HARBIN, China (AP) — Ice sculptures of Moscow's Red Square and Bangkok's Temple of the Emerald Buddha are among landmarks featured in the world's largest ice festival. The Harbin International Ice and ...

To the human eye, ancient glacial ice acts like a filter, absorbing red and yellow light and reflecting blue light, creating the beautiful blue hues of a glacier. In contrast, snow is white ...

some of the red wavelengths of sunlight — which is the longest wavelength of visible light — get absorbed into the ice structure. The blue, which is the shortest wavelength of visible light ...

In ice, the absorption of light at the red end of the spectrum is six times greater than at the blue end. Six feet into the ice, most of the light in the red spectrum can’t be seen. A lack of ...