Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

The Muldrow Glacier with Mount Denali in the background. You can see 70 foot tall ice cliff, which formed as a result of the glacial bulging. The crevasses did not exist for the last 50 years prior to ...

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

Alaska's glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods, a Colorado State University ...

Mars is often mistaken as a hot planet from the beginning due to its iron-rich soil with rusty-red color. It suggests that its temperature is quite similar to the Earth, but in reality, it was quite ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A University of Montana Western professor recently published a paper thatchallenge previous assumptions about glacier retreat timing. Dr. Spruce W. Schoenemann's paper focuses on ...

An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea. The ...