Scientists say glacier engineering could be a potential stopgap as the Earth passes a critical climate milestone. Others aren ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond 'nature's archive,', other sources, such as diaries, travel ...

scientists are developing mitigation and adaptation strategies that they think could help save us and the glaciers — large sheets of ice and snow found on every continent but Australia — from ...

For biologist Laura Phillips, the Morozumi Range in Antarctica’s east was an “alien”, beautiful region to study.

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New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ...

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has ...

How Satellite Imagery Can Help Monitor Dangerous Lakes Formed by Glacier Surges Near High-Mountain ... Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Glaciers can provide crucial data about our planet's past and provide clues about its future. "Permafrost is a valuable paleoenvironmental repository as the sediments and ice can archive fossils, ...

storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was built up from data contributions from many glaciological ...