After a May avalanche in Blatten, Switzerland, experts took notice of an unusual phenomenon affecting the nation's glaciers ...

The Space for Shore project utilizes radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission to provide precise, year-over-year insights into glacier retreat and calving intensity, particularly in areas ...

The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth, and now we can see it—literally. As rising temperatures accelerate the pace of Arctic glacier retreat, nearly 2,500 kilometers of new ...

On Aug. 29, political scientist Ian Bremmer shared side-by-side images that compare how an Arctic glacier has changed over time. The black-and-white image on top of the post shows a person in a ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due ...

Do These Photographs Show the Same Spot in the Arctic 100 Years Apart? A glacier comparison project documented some stark changes in the Arctic landscape across the span of a century.

Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. ... Gabrielle and Leonard focused on Vallåkrabreen, a small valley glacier in central Svalbard, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A glacier range the size of the state of New York surprisingly contributes 10 percent of ...

The glacier had been in significant retreat since 1990, but was hit especially hard by the extremely warm summers of the last couple years. The glacier's destruction is likely a sign of more to come.

Though the exact age of the glacier is unknown, it falls between 770,000 years and 2.4 million years, the age of the fossil forest that lay below the ice. At that time, the High Arctic was merely ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...