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

The Guardian recently spoke with scientists about the concerning signs that some of Antarctica's large glaciers may have entered a phase of irreversible melting. Researchers warn that the region could ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

In the Wasatch mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, a popular hiking trail winds up through aspen and spruce trees to reach White Pine Lake. Scott Hotaling is marching up this familiar path, but ...

That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists are monitoring for signs of continued retreat by the majestic masses of ice under the heat of global ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...