They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the world’s ...

Hidden rock glaciers in Wyoming are resisting climate warming and could help sustain cold mountain streams for decades to ...

A decade of NASA airborne radar surveys produces the most extensive inventory of glacier ice thickness for Alaska and ...

Many of the boulders scattered across the Swiss landscape did not originate where they now stand. Instead, they were carried ...

If you have ever hiked in the high peaks of Colorado, the Wasatch Range in Utah or the Tetons in Wyoming, you’ve almost ...

The Ice Memory Sanctuary was built to keep samples from glaciers frozen, preserving thousands of years of Earth's climate ...

As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...

Glaciers—dynamic masses of ice descending from the mountain tops—have always been fascinating to humankind. They intrinsically belong to the high-alpine environment. Countless photographs immortalize ...

The snowfall from last winter disappeared a month sooner than usual, after two early hot spells. Huge volumes of exposed ice ...

Researchers present a global assessment of ice loss since the beginning of the millennium. In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest. International ...

Swiss glaciers experienced an unusually early disappearance of snow this summer, weeks ahead of schedule, as a European heatwave intensified ice loss across the Alps, scientists have reported.

How did Stonehenge get to its final resting place? For decades, researchers and archaeologists have had their own ideas about ...