A glacial outburst (also known as a glacial lake outburst flood, or GLOF) is a sudden and rapid release of water from a glacial lake. These lakes form when meltwater from glaciers collects behind ...

Changes that begin in the ice at the tops of high mountain ranges are cascading down to lower altitudes. As the world warms, they are changing borders, livelihoods and the shapes of mountains ...

A recent study has challenged some of the most alarming predictions about Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, dubbed the "Doomsday Glacier," owing to the seismic impacts it could have on the world's ...

The lake is situated in a valley blocked by the massive Edward Bailey Glacier. As the lake filled, the water began to lift the glacier, carving a 25-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the ice ...

The isotope ratios of 238 Pu/ 239+240 Pu, so far unprecedented in the literature, have been for the first time observed in the cryoconite of the Exploradores Glacier in Patagonia. Researchers ...

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The radiantly blue glacial lakes on the Findel Glacier were covered by dozens of metres of ice a decade ago Switzerland's glaciers have lost a further 4% of their volume this year - the second ...

In 2008, researchers at Nasa dropped 90 rubber ducks in the Jakobshavn Glacier in Baffin Bay, near western Greenland, to track the movements of a glacier. Wondering why your duck has a hole on the ...

The world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate, according to a comprehensive new study. A French-led team assessed the behaviour of nearly all documented ice streams on the planet.