With sea traffic set to rise in a warming Arctic, researchers are helping sailors plot a safer course through sea ice and ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. The study ...

To make the animation, I downloaded the geographic information system data for the glaciers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The data is extremely detailed, coming in at a huge 14GB.

Who’s paying for their huge losses?; Iceland’s glaciers have melted fast in the past decade but are melting slower than during the previous decade. Is this good news? Watch the video below or listen ...

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world's ...

No wonder Iceland is called the land of fire and ice because in a country literally frozen by time, with 11 percent of the land area of the country covered by glaciers, volcanic eruptions and lava ...

Climate Change Is Shrinking Glaciers Faster Than Ever, With 7 Trillion Tons Lost Since 2000 Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new ...

From top: CryoSat, Terra, ICESat, and the twin GRACE spacecraft, above a map of elevation change for the Vatnajökull ice cap on Iceland. (ESA, NASA, and Planetary Visions) In January, the United ...

A New Zealand glacier expert sounding the alarm on climate change feels she is yelling into the void as yet another study shows our glaciers are rapidly shrinking. The grim news – published in ...