Boston, Mass. – Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical ...

There are glaciers on every continent in the world (except Australia!), but they're disappearing slowly due to human caused climate change. They're much more important than you might realize to ...

Ancient granite boulders reveal a vast hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier, reshaping understanding of Antarctic ice flow. Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of th ...

A new study analyzing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake drainage hazards. New research has ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...

There aren't many places on the planet where you can see both active volcanoes and massive glaciers. This Icelandic national ...

The Lambert-Fisher Glacier is known as the world's largest glacier because it is the longest and one of the most voluminous ...

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities. During ...