Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

Along a spiralling mountain trail on a morning when the air’s so chilled and dry your breath feels ragged before it even ...

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

A surprising phenomenon has just been observed in Antarctica thanks to Sentinel-1 satellites: a glacier, the East Kohler, is "stealing" ice from another neighboring glacier. In West Antarctica, ...

“Over 50 people, including Buddhist monks and members of local community, and glacier experts from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal completed the arduous high-altitude trek to attend the tribute event ...

Yala is the first glacier in Asia and the third glacier worldwide to carry a plaque with words by author, Andri Snaer Magnason in its memory. Plaques bearing his message also sit at the site of ...

Scientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, subglacial lakes teeming with unique microbial life, and a network of volcanoes.

Nepal will mark the rapid melting of a crucial glacier with a “funeral” next week as scientists warn that climate change threatens thousands of other masses of ice across the world. Buddhist ...

A glacier in Antarctica is committing 'ice piracy' -- stealing ice from a neighbor -- in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say scientists.

Though the exact age of the glacier is unknown, it falls between 770,000 years and 2.4 million years, the age of the fossil forest that lay below the ice. At that time, the High Arctic was merely ...

An acute need to account for warm glacier ice Open the walk-in freezer in Iverson's campus lab and you're looking at a 9-foot-tall ring-shear device that's been simulating glacial forces and ...