THE long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the ...

Among these, the research team found the Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) to be the most accurate and showed that certain earth features, such as neighbouring lakes, cirques, gentle slopes, and ...

Boston, Mass. – Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

There are glaciers on every continent in the world (except Australia!), but they're disappearing slowly due to human caused climate change. They're much more important than you might realize to ...

A new study analyzing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake drainage hazards. New research has ...

A new island emerged in a frigid lake within Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve this summer, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. That might sound like something to get ...

Adventure travellers, in particular, have their fill of more than just breathtaking views: they have the chance to trek on ...

Glaciers are disappearing. So if you've ever wanted to see these frozen giants, now's the time. Not next year. Not someday.