Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ...

Regional pollution is speeding up snow melt in the Indian Himalayas. That's according to a new study from an international ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

As global warming accelerates, the increasing number of supraglacial lakes and the need to accurately measure their depths ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...