There are glaciers on every continent in the world (except Australia!), but they're disappearing slowly due to human caused climate change. They're much more important than you might realize to ...

Find out how glaciers are created and their impact on our lives. What is a glacier? Glaciers play a major role in the health of our planet and provide more than two billion people with water, food, ...

Glaciers are formed from snow that accumulated without melting for years. They descend mountain slopes under the effect of ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - They say time is an ever-flowing river and these take a lot of time to develop. Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the ...

During Earth's ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began to melt rapidly, and the resulting water had to go ...

Drumlins are a ubiquitous landform in lands once overrun by glaciers, and yet after two centuries of studying them, we still aren’t certain how these teardrop-shaped hills form. Top image: A drumlin ...

A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...

New research out of the British Antarctic Survey found thousands of underground channels left by ice age glacial melt. The findings could improve... During Earth's ice ages, much of North America and ...