Ice rescue instructor Luc Mehl says the community is lucky the calving did not happen over the weekend, and he hopes Alaskans ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

An eyewitness, who was skating on the frozen glacial lake about a 56-mile drive southeast from Anchorage, said she heard noises and then saw the glacier break off, or calve, according to KTUU. A video ...

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 ...

On a mountainside, a mother and son come to grips with the high-risk lifestyle she introduced him to.

Remote east Greenland and the west of Iceland will welcome more tourists than ever this year. Here’s why you should beat the ...

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures or cracks that open in glaciers where ice begins to flow faster. The researchers say ...

A glacier is formed when the snow that has existed for a long time has become so thick that it has compressed the snow to become ice, which then moves under its own weight and has its own dynamics, ...

They can be used to determine which outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are most likely to form subglacial channels and consequently whether should slow down over summer, and which ones are ...

Covering nearly 10% of Earth's surface, glaciers and ice sheets are integral to the Earth's climate system, storing 70% of the planet’s freshwater, and glacier-fed lakes are home to a third of ...

Buried within the permafrost, researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ever found in the Arctic. The glacier piece became visible after 2009 landslides in the area. Researchers were ...