Rising temperatures are causing glaciers to lose ice at a rate higher than the average rate over past centuries.

In a little over two weeks, more than 3,000 billion liters of water recently flooded out of an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland. It’s the first time scientists have closely documented such an ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

During the last Ice Age, about 26,000 years ago, ... If there’s water underneath the glacier, he said, then it’s more likely to leave behind fjords or narrow bodies of water.

Those ridges are called end moraines and were formed during the Wisconsin glacial episode, popularly known as the last Ice Age. As the glaciers began retreating some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago the ...

While the word “glacier” may conjure up images of white slopes and snowy expanses, rock glaciers are big masses of flowing ice that are covered up by, well, rocks. Sponsor Message ...

WEST GLACIER, Mont. The river of ice that hugs Mount Grinnell’s high ridges is neither big nor particularly beautiful, but it may be the most accessible glacier in all of North America.