A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

Was Earth a solid snowball 700 million years ago? Some geologists have been looking for an answer in an ancient, well-preserved glacial formation in the mountains of northern Oman. Their ...

Glaciers reached Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the most recent ice age about 20,000 years ago. But much harsher ice ages hit the Earth in an ancient geological interval known as “the Cryogenian Period” ...

Forester Bernhard Fernow noted the young willow, bushy willow, alder, grasses, and spruce that grew in succession from sea level to 2,000 feet. At this point, older trees took over, leading Fernow to ...

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise — is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research. The Thwaites Glacier is ...

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 ...

Glaciers are awe-inspiring geological formations that have defined landscapes all over the world, including Colorado. A glacier is formed when snow accumulates for many years until thick ice is formed ...

LONDON: Geological Society, November 8.-Prof. P. Martin Dunca'n, F. R.S., president, in the chair.-Melville Attwood, San Francisco, and R. W. Moore, Whitehaven, were ...

Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and ...