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 ...

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

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...

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

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