The Ice Age was a period of significant geological and climatic change that dramatically shaped the Earth’s geography. This ...

Can you believe that New Hampshire was once home to active volcanoes? The Lakes Region of New Hampshire, particularly the area surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee, is a landscape defined by its ...

On the World Environment Day today, a look at the rising levels of black carbon emissions and their deposition on glaciers.

They say time is an ever-flowing river and these ones take a LOT of time. This week, we’re bundled up and headed far north ...

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...

In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine ...

More than three-quarters of the world's glaciers are set to vanish if climate change continues unchecked, a major new study warns, fueling sea-level rise and jeopardizing water supplies for billions.

Glaciers are even more sensitive to global warming than previously estimated, and, if the world warms to 2.7 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial levels, only 24 per cent of the present ...

Glaciers are considered one of our planet's most precious natural features, as inspiring to behold as cliffs, canyons, valleys or reefs. These slow moving rivers of ice - some hundreds of ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but leaving one missing. The disaster, attributed to climate change and rapid ...