Discover the top five largest individual glaciers on the planet – a ranking scientists have only recently been able to accurately produce ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions.

Ancient secrets are emerging from the melting ice of the Rocky Mountains, revealing a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest ...

Melting alpine ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest. Over 30 trees ...

Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 ...

Antarctica's sea ice has plummeted to record-low levels. A new study shows how its loss is affecting our planet.