Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

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

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

Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a ...

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

Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

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

Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

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

Glaciers harbor both ancient and human-derived antibiotic resistance genes, preserved in ice and increasingly mobilized by ...

As The Independent reported, University of Dundee researchers conducted a study on the risks posed by melting glacial lakes.