Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Glaciers—dynamic masses of ice descending from the mountain tops—have always been fascinating to humankind. They intrinsically belong to the high-alpine environment. Countless photographs immortalize ...

A groundbreaking new study provides the first consistent global picture of glacier decline since 2000, revealing that glaciers across the world have lost a whopping 5% of their volume since then. When ...

Glaciers are awe-inspiring geological formations that have defined landscapes all over the world, including Colorado. A glacier is formed when snow accumulates for many years until thick ice is formed ...

Wang Feiteng (1st L), a glacier scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explains ice core drilling operation to a group ...

In a new paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a ...