This year’s theme emphasizes Glacier Preservation, as they are vital for Earth’s water balance and ecosystems.

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...

March 21, 2025, is the inaugural UNESCO World Day for Glaciers. Glaciers are a critical supply of freshwater for billions of ...

AS the global community celebrates World Water Day 2025 on Saturday, with the theme: ‘Water and Climate Change: Preserving Glaciers’, it is critical to examine the significance of glaciers to life ...

Glacier ice has great erosive power removing ... They get cut off so while erosion makes the main valley deeper and deeper, the smaller valley is left hanging higher up above the valley floor.

Erosion transports the fragments away ... Back up on the mountains, snow and ice build up into glaciers that weigh on the rocks beneath and slowly push them downhill under the force of gravity.

Since physical and chemical erosion yield comparable carbon fluxes, studying both together is essential to avoid biases in erosion-driven carbon flux estimates.

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

These results underscore the role that rock strength plays in crafting landscapes like the Rockies or the Great Plains; while ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, they're dynamic systems. Plate tectonics raise mountains, while erosion—driven ...

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...