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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past 41,000 years, viral communities have varied significantly between cold and warm climatic periods, scientists found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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