The remnants of a glacier on an island in the Canadian Arctic could be the oldest proof of their existence - and tell us ...

A new study provides insights into where the channels that drain subglacial water from underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet are ...

This is where a glacier, a massive river of flowing ice, forms. Glaciers form the corrie when more and more snow piles up. The snow gets squashed under its own weight and is compacted into hard ice.

Seismic technology has revealed secrets of the Earth from a million years ago. During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the ...

“That tells us there was never any significant prior exposure to cosmic radiation since these glaciers formed during the last ice age.” Twenty years ago, researchers at the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru, ...

Here’s a look at how glaciers and glacial lakes form and why they may sometimes break: How glaciers and glacial lakes form Glaciers are found on every continent except Australia and some are ...

Or else it has lingered, creating vast glaciers that replenish themselves year after year. At least, that used to be the way. Now, that Icelandic ice is doing something else, something that could ...

Global temperatures are rapidly rising, which are warming oceans and melting glaciers. Scientists have long explained that mountaintops are often affected by the warming climate faster than other ...