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 ...

As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—covered an area of 705,221 km² and held approximately 121,728 billion tons of ice worldwide. Since then, ...

Researchers from England's University of Leeds have used satellite images to mark glacier melt at 11,000 square miles in three decades, for example. "Warmer temperatures are linked to the land cover ...

The world’s largest iceberg has halted its glacial movement, temporarily stalling its invasion into the open ocean. Scientists are monitoring the iceberg’s path as its shift could have ...

A new mathematical model simplifies the understanding of glacier movement, showing that both short-term and long-term ice flow variations can be explained by a single set of fundamental equations.

Glaciers serve as the largest reservoirs of frozen freshwater on Earth. They primarily form when massive ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic break into smaller sections. Additionally ...

A new study suggests another surprising perk of the beverage. 1️⃣ Building blocks: Ancient glaciers reshaped the Earth’s surface, and when the ice melted, that infused ocean water with ...

Glacier movement, or glaciation, is known to scrape up and ferry terrestrial sediments into oceans, lakes and rivers, forming the basis of aquatic food webs. However, researchers who study ancient ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland ...