You can see Vatnajökull glacier, Jökulsárlón lagoon, and Diamond Beach on one outing from Reykjavík. But if you'd like to ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be perplexingly increasing in size.

Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

In higher elevations, firn, frozen water that is something between snow and ice, covers the top of glaciers. Firn plays a critical role in regulating glacial meltwater and sea level rise. Subscribe to ...

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in the Arctic but the territory's vast underground resources. While the melting ...

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage ...

If the ice sheets across the globe melted completely, the coastal and delta regions would witness casualties most quickly.

Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice, and never is this taken so literally. Nowhere else do such utter opposites get squeezed ...

Natural climate patterns such as El Nino are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found. Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical ...

“The biomass that's stored within the planet’s glacial ice is broadly comparable to the amount of biomass that you have in the soils of all the rainforests on earth,” said Edwards, a glacial ...