Alaska previously experienced major flooding in 2023 when a glacier lake outburst occurred on the Mendenhall Glacier, located ...

Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies and continue to change the Earth’s surface. But how fast do glaciers sculpt the landscape?

The Staggering Numbers Behind Earth's Greatest Freshwater System S. Environmental Protection Agency. They contain 21% of the ...

What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a ...

NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces ...

Antarctica's unstable “Doomsday Glacier,” an ice mass the size of Florida, is melting, but researchers have discovered a new problem: Deep cracks on the glacier's underside are accelerating its ...

Nepal's base camp on Mount Everest is being moved further down the mountain, due to climate change. The site is located on top of the thinning Khumbu Glacier, which has become hazardous for climbers.

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic ...

Thwaites Glacier — otherwise known as the “Doomsday glacier,” due to the fact it could raise the sea level by several feet — is allegedly hanging on “by its fingernails.” Scientists discovered that ...

Because of Mars’ unique conditions, its ancient glaciers likely flowed very slowly, according to a new study in the Geophysical Research Letters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA According to the USGS definition ...