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.

“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, ...

Melting ice sheets in Antarctica have become a cause for concern but scientists have found that one massive glacier is on an irreversible path to collapse. The Thwaites Glacier, ominously dubbed ...

Glaciers are profoundly immense and powerful wonders of nature; they're also one of the world's most endangered natural phenomena due to climate change. It's for this reason that more and more ...