Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

During February, it is not difficult to imagine that Ohio was once covered by thick layer of ice. In fact, it has happened four times.

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

A 770,000-year-old glacier has been discovered in the Canadian Arctic, offering valuable insights into Earth's climate ...

storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was built up from data contributions from many glaciological ...

The important and central question about Greenland is whether the world will continue to raise global temperatures and watch ...

Greenland’s massive ice sheet is cracking apart at unprecedented speeds, with nearly 1 billion cubic meters of fractures ...

"For the first time, we are able to see significant increases in the size and depth of crevasses at fast-flowing glaciers at ...

Crevasses play an integral part in the life cycle of glaciers, and as they grow they hold the potential to further accelerate ...

Scientists have, for the first time, observed a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, releasing over 3,000 billion ...

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