Rising temperatures are causing glaciers to lose ice at a rate higher than the average rate over past centuries.

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Finstad's team explored nearly a dozen mountain sites at the Lendbreen glacier, an ancient mountain pass used from the Viking ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

In the Yukon, Kluane National Park and Reserve includes 17 of Canada’s 20 tallest mountains and the world’s largest non-polar ...

Those ridges are called end moraines and were formed during the Wisconsin glacial episode, popularly known as the last Ice Age. As the glaciers began retreating some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago the ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows that detailed 3D elevation models could drastically ...

Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions. University of Colorado at Boulder. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08846-x.