There are glaciers on every continent in the world (except Australia!), but they're disappearing slowly due to human caused climate change. They're much more important than you might realize to ...

A sudden, record-breaking glacier collapse in Antarctica is revealing how unseen forces beneath the ice could reshape the ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...

Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. But for how long? The Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times as fast as the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.

Since 2000, the world has lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice from mountain glaciers. Scientists are racing to recover vital information from the natural archives they store before it's too late.

There’s news about glaciers, and it’s grim. Regardless of climate mitigation strategies, the world’s glaciers are on track to shrink significantly over hundreds of years, according to a new study ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...

RHÔNE GLACIER, Switzerland — On a hotel veranda overlooking Lake Lucerne, Barbara Achrainer sips a latte and, with a sigh, peers at sightseers boarding a tour boat. It's a warm summer afternoon and ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are shrinking and expected to disappear this century. New research ...