The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

Rising global temperatures remains one of the driving forces behind glacier retreat. If human-caused carbon pollution ...

When an Antarctic glacier was sparked into rapid retreat three years ago, it left scientists scratching their heads as to ...

From Greenland to the Himalayas, the planet's glaciers are shrinking. The status of these glaciers is a sign of the impending dangers associated with a warming climate. Temperatures are rising around ...

University of Idaho researchers have developed a mathematical model that simplifies the way scientists understand changes in glacier movement. This new approach demonstrates that diverse patterns of ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University’s Neal Iverson and an international team of researchers are working to help quantify the single biggest uncertainty in predicting how much glaciers will contribute ...

Rock glaciers are distinctive landforms found in cold, mountainous regions, representing slowly creeping masses of debris interspersed with ice. Their movement, quantified as rock glacier velocity, ...

The fourth Khangri glacier expedition, a major scientific mission to study the response of Himalayan glaciers to climate ...

When the Swiss and Italian governments got together to redraw the alpine border that divides the two countries last year, due to rapidly retreating glaciers, it put into stark focus a challenge that ...

(CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according ...