The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

In Antarctica, there’s a natural phenomenon that, for more than a century, has surprised scientists and explorers: an intense ...

Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

Scientists Say Europe’s Largest Ice Cap Is Shrinking Faster Than Expected ...

Tidal action pumping warmer sea water on the underside of the massive Thwaites Glacier will “inexorably” accelerate its melting this century, which could lead to the collapse of the entire West ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing faster than ever — and the Alps may never look the same.

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...