As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

California may be known as the Golden State, with its shimmering beaches and warm Mediterranean climate. But clinging to the rooftop of the High Sierra are the last remnants of glaciers that have ...

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Satellite images spanning over three decades reveal the disappearance of Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. The shocking ...

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries – even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it. The research, led by ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...

When snow falls on glaciers and ice sheets, it accumulates layer by layer, compressing over time from fluffy powder into hardened ice layers called firn. As fresh snow continues to pile up, these firn ...

Equatorial thaw : Crodillera Blanca, 2016 -- Holocene : boring holes in bones, 11,500 years B.P.-2016 -- Last glacial maximum : cold world present in absentia, 20,000 ...

Scientists establish the first global ice archive beneath Antarctica to preserve climate records as glaciers decline.

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Hektoria Glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. This video illustrates ...

Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, with both the annual amount of ice lost and the four-year average reaching ...