If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Scientists warn that Earth faces an unusual danger as glaciers disappear. About 1,000 glaciers vanish each year, and this ...

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

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

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...

Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...

Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in ...

"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," ...

Climate change is likely to have an explosive consequence: volcanic eruptions. Antarctic glaciers have been slowly melting as temperatures rise, unearthing hidden volcanoes in the process. The ...

Gold is on track for its best year since 1979. The last time the precious metal had such a strong stretch, Jimmy Carter was ...