Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

As marine-terminating glaciers melt, the resulting freshwater is released at the seafloor, which mixes with salty seawater ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

The ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier is being hit by various earthquakes, which can increase the sea levels rapidly if the ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...

"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," ...

Climate change is having a tremendous impact on Western Canada glaciers, which experienced their second-worst year of ice ...

The paper argues that glaciers can store antibiotic resistance genes for long periods and that climate-driven melting may ...