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 ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the ice age advance began to melt, glacial deposits or drift were left behind. These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly ...

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

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

“That tells us there was never any significant prior exposure to cosmic radiation since these glaciers formed during the last ice age.” Twenty years ago, researchers at the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru, ...

While they are long gone, evidence of the glaciers can still be found on the southern slope of Maunakea volcano, the tallest mountain on earth. The Ice Age Natural Area Reserve was designated in ...

From erratic boulders to kettle hole lochans, John Davidson explores the glacial deposits left behind in Strathnairn on a ...

Glaciers are enormous bodies of dense ice on mountains. They move under the influence of gravity and their own weight, in the process eroding the land beneath. The grinding action pulverises the ...