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

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 ...

Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

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 ...

Glaciers have long been treated as symbols of permanence, yet scientists are now able to sketch a surprisingly precise window for when most of them will be gone. New modeling work suggests not only ...

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 ...

The study also found that during this event, the glacier's surface dropped by 0.6 inches.

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 ...