It's difficult to forget standing in front of a glacier that is advancing toward you, towering ice pillars constantly cracking as they inch forward. The motion is too slow to see in real time but is ...

While most of the world's glaciers are retreating as the climate warms, a small but significant population behaves very differently—and the consequences can be severe. A team of international ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey staff check monitoring equipment in Suicide Basin in June 2025. By August, the basin had filled with ...

Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures steadily increase. Underneath those dwindling layers of ice, archaeologists are ...

The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed. Glacier Peak, the 10,541-foot high point of Snohomish County, is sometimes called ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in Pine Island Bay, ...