The size of Rhode Island, the iceberg is heading toward South Georgia Island off Antarctica, jeopardizing the penguins and ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

after an ice cave collapsed on a remote Icelandic glacier in Iceland. The tourists were buried under slabs of ice after the wall at the entrance to the cave, on the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in ...

The Sandy Glacier flows down a steep bowl about two ... McGregor leans against a wall of ice, holding against it a measuring device that shoots a beam of red laser light to the cave’s opposite ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Eventually it creates a sort of moving river of ice, called a glacier. The ice does not melt much at high altitudes, but does when it moves down to warmer levels. Usually there is a balance ...

To get a better look, we take a boat around the Jokulsarlon lagoon, to the wall of the glacier. Icebergs drift past slowly. Some of them with the shimmering blue hue of freshly revealed ice.

The weight of the layers of snow become compressed into ice. This process, for most glaciers, takes over a hundred years. Plucking – sometimes rocks get frozen to the base, sides and back wall ...