This week, a two-kilometer chunk of ice broke off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier in Tajikistan, roaring downstream for nearly ...

"One of them was just lying on the ice, completely intact." Researchers stunned as melting ice reveals ancient Viking ...

Scientists have filmed nanoscale ice crystals adapting to trapped air bubbles without losing structural integrity.

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. As this cold fresh water from glacier melt enters lakes and oceans, it can have a big effect on how the water behaves — and on the fish, mammals, and other ...

An Italian scientist conducting research on the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska fell into a stream of meltwater and then plunged into a shaft in the ice. "The water then pushed him into a moulin, which ...

JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland, March 21 (Reuters) - The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, ...

A landmass that was previously encased in the ice of Alaska's Alsek Glacier is now fully surrounded by water, forming a new island in the state, NASA satellite images reveal. The nearly ...

This polarized light image shows ice grains deformed in experiments with the ring-shear device in Neal Iverson's Iowa State laboratory. The experiments show that grains, on average, grow about 3 times ...