Researchers studied the cracks in the shear zone over the span of two decades. They discovered that the fracturing happened in two phases. According to the study, long shear fractures would expand, ...

The results are rockfalls, landslides, and dangerous floods. Guides sound alarm as iconic glaciers collapse at popular ...

Folgefonna ski area used to be one of just six ski resorts that were only open in summer, but now its doors are shut for good. According to Powder Magazine, dubbed The Skier's Magazine, the ski lift ...

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

The glaciers of Central Asia have long resisted the melting observed elsewhere in the world. These ice giants, nicknamed "the third pole", now appear to be weakened by a recent change in their ...

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost a quarter of their volume in the past decade alone, a study warned Wednesday, heightening concerns over ...

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

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets collapsing, if ...

Researchers’ headquarters. Base camp north of Maidakul Lake, close to Kyzylsu Glacier, during the first field visit in June 2021. Northwestern Pamir mountains, central Tajikistan. Too little snowfall ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...