The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

If you’ve ever looked at a world map and thought it was set in stone, think again. Glaciers around the globe are melting at an alarming rate, and it’s not just causing sea levels to rise—it’s actually ...

Models produced by climate scientists in the 2000s suggested that the masses of ice that gave Glacier National Park its name ...

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

Switzerland's glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists ...

Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow. 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 ...

In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in ...