Models produced by climate scientists in the 2000s suggested that the masses of ice that gave Glacier National Park its name ...

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide ...

Researchers calculated every glacier’s lifespan and found that even at the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the planet ...

Standing guard over the valley, Sentinel Rock’s near-vertical north face was carved by dramatic rockfalls that split the cliffside. Weathering and erosion continue to sculpt Yosemite Valley, and ...

Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary melt, in yet another sign of how much humans are changing the world by burning ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

Thousands of glaciers have vanished over the past few decades and as the world continues to heat up, they are expected to disappear at an increasing pace. New research gives a glimpse of just how quic ...

In 2019 hundreds of mourners, many wearing black, attended a funeral for the glacier led by a priest and glaciologists.

The celebration of International Mountain Day today comes with an urgent call to act on glacier loss, which affects millions ...

Earthquakes recorded under the Thwaites Glacier reveal processes of fracturing and sliding of the ice over the Antarctic bedrock.

As climate change causes glaciers to melt, Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a section of their border spanning a part of the Alps. In 2023 alone, Switzerland’s glaciers lost 4% of their volume, ...