Over half of the world’s glaciers could vanish by 2100, impacting sea levels, water supplies, and climate stability.

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Learn about the rapid melting of the last Ice Age and how it led to the era of the 'plumeworld ocean' on Earth.

Warming-caused glacier retreat is a source of “water scarcity, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power generation and ...

Glaciers like these provide drinking water to communities during their dry seasons. As they melt, this water supply dwindles and lost ice causes seas to rise. In 1971, researchers made a ...

After catching a gondola down into the valley, I descend a 170-step metal staircase (be warned: you have to come back up this too) and then plunge into the glacier’s icy innards. Immediately, the ...

WEST VIRGINIA IS HAUNTED by the shadows of rivers that no longer exist. They writhe like snakes through its mountains, nearly ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

Dübendorf, 12.11.2024 - A nuclear waste storage facility needs to be secure, even if glaciers were to churn down from the Alps into the midlands in a distant future. This is why Nagra arranged for a ...

Cream City brick's story starts around 25,000 years ago during the Ice Age, when glaciers deposited clay, rocks, and other material in the Milwaukee area. Water from glacial melt and Lake Michigan ...