Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

In Alaska’s capital, a retreating glacier has turned from postcard backdrop into a recurring threat, sending sudden torrents ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Save money, get organized, live better: ...

The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that as climate change causes many glaciers to shrink and retreat their ...

An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research. Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The glacier is about 115 square miles (or roughly the size of Philadelphia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever looked at a world map and thought it was set in stone, think again. Glaciers around the globe are melting at an ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Mauri S. Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols ...

This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, as it loses contact with a land mass known as Prow Knob, ...