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

The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

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

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

Greenland is the world's largest island, boasting the world's largest national park. Exploring this Arctic wonderland takes ...

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

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

Mountain guides are witnessing the impact of warming temperatures firsthand, as melting glaciers force them to adapt new ...

Glaciers around the world are shrinking at a pace scientists say will continue for decades. Public attention often focuses on rising seas and water shortages. Another part of the story has received ...

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

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