THE long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the ...

Thousands of giant rocks scattered across Switzerland have puzzled people for centuries. Many of these huge boulders are ...

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

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaiʻi Island has revealed important insights about how past climate changes affected the region and how these shifts could ...

Nicknamed because its potential collapse could create a catastrophic rise in sea level, new research has shown that Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to ...

Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. That’s the key finding of our new research, which pushes the ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

Stand in awe while admiring the constantly changing, absolutely stunning Alaskan landscape, which includes the largest ...

As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world's glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting—and the melt is ...