"Glacier velocity could be a valuable new technique for monitoring volcanic activity," researcher Joseph Mallalieu said.

Researchers have detected 85 previously unknown lakes underneath Antarctic glaciers, a development they fear could lead to ...

In California, scientists have thoroughly documented the shrinkage of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada. John Muir began studying ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...

Over 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a dramatic climate event known as the Sturtian glaciation, one of the most extreme ice ages in history. During this period, the planet was encased in ice ...

Photographs and written accounts show how much the Sierra's glaciers have retreated. In one expedition in 1872, John Muir ...

The Ice Age is often pictured as endless snow, advancing glaciers, and struggling creatures—and it is easy to assume Greece was the same.

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

“The tram is surveyed routinely to track its movement, and inspected methodically by Doppelmayr engineers from Europe who are familiar with installations on glaciers,” he said. The tram is one long ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

The Late Paleozoic epoch in South America witnessed complex interactions between tectonic forces, climatic oscillations and sedimentary processes. During this period, widespread glaciation influenced ...