The Basic Science Behind Ice Core Formation When snow falls on glaciers and ice sheets, it accumulates layer by layer, ...

There are glaciers on every continent in the world (except Australia!), but they're disappearing slowly due to human caused climate change. They're much more important than you might realize to ...

During Earth's ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began to melt rapidly, and the resulting water had to go ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...

Boston, Mass. – Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were ...

The beautiful and distinctive U-shaped glacial valleys typical of alpine areas from Alaska to New Zealand have fascinated and frustrated geologists for centuries. While it seems obvious that glaciers ...

Antarctica is the world's largest desert. It is also covered in ice sheets that are 4 kilometers thick on the eastern side of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and 2 kilometers thick on the west. So how ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates ...

Glaciers are cooling the air around them to resist rising temperatures—but scientists say this self-defense won’t last.

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