With the sun lower in the sky in late October, long shadows exaggerate ridgelines and valleys, making it easier to see the ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

Glaciers tend to fade into the background of daily life, yet their retreat keeps moving closer to where people live and work.

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

A couple of fronts will move through Montana the next few days with areas of heavy snow and strong wind. While there will be ...

Aaron E. Putnam is in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA. Mountain glaciers are highly sensitive, purely physical ...