Massive underwater waves triggered by falling icebergs are playing a bigger role in Greenland’s ice loss than scientists once ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

A researcher from Italy is missing after he fell into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, authorities said. The Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that on Tuesday, Sept. 2, around 1:45 ...

Beneath Taylor Glacier, several kilometres away from where Blood Falls emerges, there is a subglacial pool. It formed millions of years ago below hundreds of metres of ice. The water there has very ...

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's too late.

Researchers across the Alps are extracting ice cores from rapidly shrinking glaciers in a bid to preserve climate records stretching back thousands of years. The effort, coordinated through the Ice ...

The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

Mangsatabam Dinachandra MeeteiIn the remote mountains of Alaska, glaciers move slowly but steadily, carrying with them the silent records of the past. Beneath one such glacier lay the remains of a tra ...