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

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

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

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

Glaciers tend to fade into the background of daily life, yet their retreat keeps moving closer to where people live and work.

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 ...

Mountain glaciers in Western Canada have trapped evidence of climate events that can help forecast the future in the region ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of climate change. According to recent models that predict changes in the magma ...

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

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about how Europe ...

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 ...