Ice cores extracted by scientists from glaciers or polar ice caps contain air bubbles that have been trapped for millennia.

The problem is clear: the world’s glaciers are melting, causing sea levels to rise. As global temperatures soar due to the continued influx of greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere, ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier ...

A University of New Brunswick researcher has returned from the Amundsen icebreaker’s first scientific expedition to the Queen ...

The glaciers in Canada's St. Elias Mountains are melting at an alarming rate. These disappearing glaciers have shaped the lives of Indigenous people who have lived there for generations and continue ...

Glacier Database, Version 1 data set, available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated. This update includes new glacier ...

Pour batter onto a griddle and watch the mixture spread out into a round-shaped pancake. The movement is similar to the flow of piedmont glaciers, which form when ice spills from a steep valley onto a ...

Glaciers are one of the largest reservoirs of freshwater on our planet, and their melting or growing is one of the best indicators of climate change. However, knowledge of glacier change has been ...

Natural climate patterns such as El Nino are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found. Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical ...

Human-caused climate change is transforming the world at a lightning pace. New research reveals exactly what that means for Alaska’s glaciers and icefields. These critical bodies of frozen water are ...

Across the world, there are places where distance still defines daily life. Reaching them means crossing glaciers, deserts, ...