For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined ...

"We heard huge booming sounds travelling down through the glacier," said Ron Chambers, a First Nations member and former ...

Mount Rainier National Park, established in 1899, was our nation’s fifth national park. Home to 14,410 ft. iconic Mt. Rainier ...

Glaciers are top-heavy where they meet the ocean, while most of their mass hides below the surface. Warm water erodes the ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...

Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move ...

Glaciers, nature’s slow-moving sculptors, are reshaping our planet in ways we can now measure with unprecedented precision.

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Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, ...

On the flanks of Martian mountains and crater rims, curious shapes sprawl outward like thick syrup frozen mid-flow. But these ...

Glaciers holding massive amounts of water are melting at unprecedented rates, reshaping ocean systems and influencing ...

Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to ...