If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.
An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...
Scientists warn that Earth faces an unusual danger as glaciers disappear. About 1,000 glaciers vanish each year, and this ...
Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...
Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in ...
As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...
Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...
Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures steadily increase. Underneath those dwindling layers of ice, archaeologists are ...
The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...
A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...
"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," ...
High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...