Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

The Trump administration plans to open tent camps in preparation for moving up to 30,000 deportees to the controversial detention camp.

Scientists say glacier engineering could be a potential stopgap as the Earth passes a critical climate milestone. Others aren ...

Crevasses play an integral part in the life cycle of glaciers, and as they grow they hold the potential to further accelerate ...

“ Tropical regions are home to rich biodiversity and diverse ecosystems, including vital natural land types such as forests. There is a more consistent consensus that temperature increases in tropical ...

Welcome back to the Big Ten Basketball Weekend Rundown. In this edition of the Weekend Rundown, we will review the results ...

Recent findings have raised alarm among scientists about the Greenland Ice Sheet’s stability, revealing that crevasses—deep ...

Climatologists say that thanks to the high resolution of satellites on these maps, it is possible to analyze objects several meters across and determine their approximate volume and shape ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...