Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

This process, for most glaciers, takes over a hundred years. Plucking – sometimes rocks get frozen to the base, sides and back wall of the glacier. The movement of the glacier pulls these frozen ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Even though "glacial" is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed ...

Glacier-fed streams are undergoing a process of profound change, according to EPFL and Charles University scientists in a paper appearing in Nature Geoscience today.

Researchers have estimated the Antarctic “Doomsday” glacier—which has been predicted to cause a devastating rise in global ...

It’s not easy to photograph climate change, a slow, subtle process that develops over time. But when a glacier breaks up, the images can be breathtaking — and a sobering reminder of the ...

Co-author Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Glaciology at the University of Bristol, said, "Glacier calving is a poorly modeled and understood process that plays a crucial role in the health of a glacier.

Glacier and Colorado ’s Rocky Mountain National Park introduced their day-use reservation system in 2021. A handful of other ...

Covering more than 3,000 square miles and eight percent of the country, it's not only Iceland's largest glacier but the largest in Europe. It's said that if Vatnajökull was spread evenly over the ...