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

A ‘lightning-fast’ melting event astonished the scientific community when researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Before Factories, There Were Medieval Fires And Roman Mines. A Vanishing Glacier Preserved The Proof. In A Nutshell ...

Researchers across the Alps are extracting ice cores from rapidly shrinking glaciers in a bid to preserve climate records stretching back thousands of years. The effort, coordinated through the Ice ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's too late.

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss ...

It was the balmy winter that made Wayne Turner reach out to Simeon Caskey to give a talk on the past, present and future of glaciers in Grand Teton National ...

Twila Moon is pictured during field work to study ice-ocean interaction at the LeConte Glacier, Alaska. Credit: Twila Moon/NSIDC Twila Moon is pictured during field work to study ice-ocean interaction ...