An eyewitness, who was skating on the frozen glacial lake about a 56-mile drive southeast from Anchorage, said she heard ...

The paper, by N.E. Young at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'Glacier maxima in Baffin Bay during the Medieval Warm Period ...

A nail-biting video from Portage Lake early Monday evening shows the moment the Portage Lake Glacier calved leaving two people stranded.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing time ...

Archaeologists and scientists use rock layers to date fossils and artifacts, but Glacier's geological features are perplexing. Due to what's known as the Lewis Overthrust, a fault feature ...

The remnants of a glacier on an island in the Canadian Arctic could be the oldest proof of their existence - and tell us about what a future ice age could look like. A landslide of thawing permafrost ...

A six-year investigation into the vast Thwaites glacier in Antarctica has concluded with a grim outlook on its future. Often ...

As glacial ice moves very slowly downhill, pieces of rock and gravel get stuck between the ice and the land, forming a coarse surface, similar to the sand on sandpaper. These rocks grind together ...

Ice climbers came to the rescue of two people who became stranded when a piece of glacier broke off and crashed onto a lake in Alaska, officials said.