Alaska’s lakes are expanding rapidly as glaciers retreat and scientists say the changes could bring some benefits.

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ice, ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

We might be able to tell when a volcano is about to erupt with the help of another natural wonder: glaciers. Glaciers that are within 3 miles of a volcano appear to move nearly 50 percent faster than ...

MISSOULA — To be a glacier, a field of ice must move. Seen from space, they also appear to breathe. A pair of new animations from NASA’s Earth Observatory compile three decades of satellite images ...