About a century before Glacier Bay became a national park, conservationist John Muir visited the landform now called Russell ...

"The View from Glacier Point" is not the title of a painting by Bierstadt or a novel by John O’Hara. I am referring to the ...

Home to mighty glaciers, mirror-still lakes, tranquil meadows and ravishing peaks, Valais delivers Switzerland in widescreen.

There are designated areas in the U.S. where the night sky is so crystal clear that you can see the Milky Way galaxy ...

Earth scientists often face huge challenges when researching Earth's history: many significant events occurred such a long ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

On September 24, an international team of scientists set out on a pioneering ice-coring mission in Tajikistan rsquo;s Pamir ...

Explore the dramatic beauty of Patagonia through 4K aerial footage capturing glaciers, turquoise lakes, rugged peaks, and ...

Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier, in the southern canton of Valais, reduced by 800 metres in length. Today it is 3.2 km shorter than in 1880, with an average ice thickness of 57 metres.

Satellites reveal 85 new lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice, exposing a shifting underworld that influences glaciers and future ...

Scientists using ESA’s CryoSat satellite uncovered 85 new subglacial lakes in Antarctica, showing how hidden water networks ...