The U.S. Forest Service is warning Juneau residents to stay away from the face of the Mendenhall Glacier, where a large piece of ice may fall off at any moment. Paul Robbins Jr, a spokesperson for the ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Social media posts sharing a graphic comparing sea ice levels in the Antarctic on the same date 45 years apart misrepresent ...

Scientists have documented an unprecedented glacial flood in East Greenland, where an estimated 3,000 billion liters of ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...