A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island has revealed important insights about how past climate changes affected the region and how these shifts could impact global ...

Scientists now warn that glaciers in many parts of the world 'will not survive the 21st century', potentially triggering ...

Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ... or noting geologic fingerprints the flow left behind. On planetary bodies like Titan, Saturn's ...

Scientists now warn that glaciers in many parts of the world 'will not survive the 21st century', potentially triggering ...

Salt deposits left behind when ancient seas evaporated are some of the purest in the world, Doney says. (Roger Cosman/CBC) "It's very clean," said Doney, proudly holding up a rock of salt and ...

more salt was left behind. In some places, the layers of salt are tens of metres deep. "It's very clean," said Doney, proudly holding up a rock of salt and shining a light through it. "In excess ...

For years it had been a morass of large rocks and quicksand-like mud ... Its approximately two million acres include a web of glacier-fed rivers, one of Africa’s Great Lakes, sun-bleached ...

The project is called the New Amalga Gold Deposit and it’s being led by ... Tailings are the ground-up rock that’s left over after the extraction of valuable metals like gold, zinc and silver.

Glacier melting is having real-world effects, demonstrating how much damage climate change can do. "There's a tide gauge down ...

China is staring at a water crisis in the mid-to-long term after the latest climate data showed a rapidly depleting glacial count. As many as 7,000 glaciers have disappeared completely ...