Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the ...

Austria and Italy's border was drawn in 1919, after the countries fought a high-altitude war. Mountain ridges define parts of ...

Police initially believed 25 people were on the tour and that two other people were trapped in the Breidamerkurjökull glacier ... between cave mouths when an ice wall collapsed.

To get a better look, we take a boat around the Jokulsarlon lagoon, to the wall of the glacier. Icebergs drift past slowly. Some of them with the shimmering blue hue of freshly revealed ice.

Eventually it creates a sort of moving river of ice, called a glacier. The ice does not melt much at high altitudes, but does when it moves down to warmer levels. Usually there is a balance ...

they expose towering ice cliffs that could crumble under their own weight, triggering a chain reaction of rapid glacier retreat. While MICI has featured prominently in worst-case climate models ...

Harbor seals in icy regions use icebergs shed by glaciers as safe platforms to give birth, care for young and molt. New research finds that as glaciers change with the climate, the resulting changes ...

Bedrock recently exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, paleoclimatologist ...