A new scientific study has raised serious concerns over the growing threat posed by glacial lakes in the Kashmir Himalaya, ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

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 ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada ...

Wesleyan University and University of Colorado provide funding as members of The Conversation US. Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows ...

On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice’s movement and snaps photos. Later, he creates a report that includes ...

Kelleys Island was highlighted on Fish Ohio Day. In addition to walleye fishing, Kelleys Island offers a look at a geological marvel. The glacial grooves carved into the area's limestone show change ...

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities. During ...