Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

Between May and September this year, avalanches, landslides and flashfloods tore through mountain communities in Switzerland, ...

Hidden beneath the pristine white surface of Antarctica and Greenland lies an invisible crisis. While most people imagine ice ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored ...

Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below. By Raymond Zhong, Jason Gulley and Bora Erden Jason Gulley spent four weeks trekking ...

An international research team has shown that avalanches are crucial to the survival of many glaciers worldwide. The study ...

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 ...

The global retreat of glaciers and ice patches is both well-documented and concerning, a clear calling card from a warming world. And all around the globe, archaeologists have been springing into ...

Melting glaciers across the Alps continue to reveal historic artifacts, missing remnants, and even human remains ...