Greenland's mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

The Muldrow Glacier with Mount Denali in the background. You can see 70 foot tall ice cliff, which formed as a result of the glacial bulging. The crevasses did not exist for the last 50 years prior to ...

Mars is often mistaken as a hot planet from the beginning due to its iron-rich soil with rusty-red color. It suggests that its temperature is quite similar to the Earth, but in reality, it was quite ...

Aaron E. Putnam is in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA. Mountain glaciers are highly sensitive, purely physical ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Himalayas house some of the most breathtaking glaciers in the world. Yet there is one that calls out to the imagination ...

An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea. The ...