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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...