As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

Do glaciers really erode mountains faster than rivers? How fast helium-4 dissipates out of rocks may hold the answer. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a study involving UB researchers has found. Combining satellite images with historical aerial ...

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Satellite images spanning over three decades reveal the disappearance of Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. The shocking ...

Ray Djuff dove into the history of Glacier National Park’s historic red buses and found that their continued existence is owed to determined people who wanted to see the iconic fleet drive the ...

Venezuela has lost its last glacier, making it the first nation in modern history to hold this unenviable record. At least five other glaciers have disappeared in the South American country within the ...

The wildfire smoke has been around a lot longer this summer and autumn, defiantly longer than anyone anticipated. Some might wonder what effect the smoke – and, more importantly, the ash — might have ...

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 48, No. 2 (May 2016), pp. 253-261 (9 pages) Calendar dating of tree-ring series from 16 logs sampled near the margin of Casement Glacier combined with tree ...

Glaciers in California’s mountains are disappearing fast and will likely be gone by the end of the century. Geologists found that these glaciers have been in place since before humans came to the ...