A British Antarctic Survey drilling campaign on Thwaites Glacier, the massive ice formation often called the “Doomsday ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

A new island emerged in a frigid lake within Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve this summer, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. That might sound like something to get ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Alaska's Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow ...

New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. A 6.5-mile crack formed in 2012 over 5-and-a-half minutes, showing that ice shelves can effectively shatter ...

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities. During ...

Recent weather patterns of small amounts of snow, rain, freezing rain, ice and “wintery mix” have made going outside less enjoyable and downright treacherous. Rather than cursing the conditions, it is ...

A new study analyzing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake drainage hazards. New research has ...