One of the most unusual sights in the world is a glacier. Glaciers are found in mountain locations and in the coldest regions on earth. They are often a surprising and beautiful blue color. But snow ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

Glaciers are sheets of ice formed by snow falling on them more than melting. Over the years, the snow gets packed into ice, and they start to look a shade of blue (read more in Why Glaciers Are Blue?) ...

A recent study reveals the alarming rate at which glaciers are disappearing worldwide, reinforcing the urgency of the UN's International Year of Glaciers' Preservation.

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

a cracked pattern of ice near the glacier’s base or very bright blue on its face. Cracking sounds are also a clear warning sign. Roth said she wants to remind people: “Just how special it is ...

Each year, locals dig a walkable ice cave, or ice "grotto," directly into the glacier's deep blue ice. Even better, the ice grotto is only a short distance from the Chamonix train station via a ...

“One of the best sounds in alpine mountaineering is the sound of crampons and ice axes on good firm snow,” he says. The Sandy Glacier flows ... get this eerie green blue light which was ...