The remnants of a glacier on an island in the Canadian Arctic could be the oldest proof of their existence - and tell us about what a future ice age could look like. A landslide of thawing permafrost ...
A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate ...
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.
About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...
The Sheer Beauty of Glaciers Imagine a vast expanse of ice stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is the sight that greets you when you visit nearly any glacier in the world. They are like ...
the ice begins moving at speed and the glacier front can advance, in some settings blocking rivers and forming lakes that put communities and infrastructure downstream at risk of flooding.
A new study provides insights into where the channels that drain subglacial water from underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet are most likely located.