A network of ancient subglacial basins stretching across much of East Antarctica has been identified and mapped at continent ...

One of the great joys of living in the North Country is getting to watch up close as our natural environment moves through the seasons. Early spring is a particularly dramatic and turbulent time. Last ...

Greenland's ice flows The study shows the rapid flow of ice, moving at average speeds of up to 15 m per day, from glaciers and ice sheets at points around the Greenland Ice Sheet (see image below).

Scientists have long known that glaciers are melting and contributing significantly to sea level rise. What’s not fully understood, however, is the complex ways they are moving deep within, a process ...

As meltwater drains through and beneath a glacier, it can alter how the ice flows and whether it breaks apart. Meltwater can ...

AMES, Iowa – Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when asked to describe a research paper about glacier ice flow that has just been published by the journal Science. First, said the ...

A glacier could have carried the giant sandstone at the centre of Stonehenge southwards from north-east Scotland, but this ...

Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and sometimes surprising patterns, as evidenced by a new capability that uses satellite images to map the speed of flowing ice in Greenland, Antarctica and ...

Scientists studying the Greenland Ice Sheet have found evidence that massive layers of refrozen meltwater deep beneath the surface are warping and softening the ice from within, producing internal ...

Part of an ice core taken from a borehole drilled in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream Lukasz Larsson Warzecha / LWimages via ETH Zürich Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate, ...