Despite the mix of wintry weather and cool temperatures that has converged on Glacier National Park’s alpine reaches in ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

It’s a breathtaking moment—standing at the foot of a glacier, feeling the chilly air, and listening to the distant creak of ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel ... Back up on the mountains, snow and ice build up into glaciers that weigh on the rocks beneath and slowly push them downhill under the force of gravity.

Glacier National Park plow crews are about three miles from Logan Pass on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Crews have started on the Big Bend and are down to pavement at Grouse Point. Snow depths are four ...

It's a bit like your bottom sliding down the back of a car seat. Freeze thaw weathering takes place above the glacier as ice thaws and then refreezes inside cracks or fissures in the rock.