A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...
A dramatic new island has formed in Alaska’s southeastern region, marking a significant environmental change caused by the retreat of glaciers.NASA’s latest satellite images captured the unprecedented ...
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 ...
There aren't many places on the planet where you can see both active volcanoes and massive glaciers. This Icelandic national ...
The Lambert-Fisher Glacier is known as the world's largest glacier because it is the longest and one of the most voluminous ...
Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures steadily increase. Underneath those dwindling layers of ice, archaeologists are ...
A giant, impossible icicle. Starkly exposed mountain slopes. Billion-year-old rocks behind a lone iceberg. And the view from within a glacial tunnel. The main image shows ice that has formed around a ...
“The biomass that's stored within the planet’s glacial ice is broadly comparable to the amount of biomass that you have in the soils of all the rainforests on earth,” said Edwards, a glacial ...
Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and ...