From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

Half of the named glaciers in Oregon’s Cascade Range have disappeared or are on the verge of vanishing as warming summer ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A University of Montana Western professor recently published a paper thatchallenge previous assumptions about glacier retreat timing. Dr. Spruce W. Schoenemann's paper focuses on ...

Snowfall shortages are now destabilizing some of the world’s last resilient glaciers, as shown by a new study in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains. Using a monitoring station on Kyzylsu Glacier, ...

Alaska's glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods, a Colorado State University ...

Aaron E. Putnam is in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA. Mountain glaciers are highly sensitive, purely physical ...

Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Andrew Lorrey receives funding from NIWA's ...