Retreating Himalayan glaciers threaten water security for hundreds of millions of people due to disrupted river flow.

The Teton Fault System Creates the Foundation The Teton Fault began moving approximately 10 million years ago, triggering a ...

Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies and continue to change the Earth’s surface. But how fast do glaciers sculpt the landscape?

What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a ...

NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces ...

Nepal's base camp on Mount Everest is being moved further down the mountain, due to climate change. The site is located on top of the thinning Khumbu Glacier, which has become hazardous for climbers.

Antarctica's unstable “Doomsday Glacier,” an ice mass the size of Florida, is melting, but researchers have discovered a new problem: Deep cracks on the glacier's underside are accelerating its ...

Thwaites Glacier — otherwise known as the “Doomsday glacier,” due to the fact it could raise the sea level by several feet — is allegedly hanging on “by its fingernails.” Scientists discovered that ...

Glaciers and icebergs are distinct icy structures, differing in origin, structure, and behavior. Glaciers are massive, ...

Because of Mars’ unique conditions, its ancient glaciers likely flowed very slowly, according to a new study in the Geophysical Research Letters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA According to the USGS definition ...