Scientists have found a more accurate method to determine the ages of boulders deposited by tropical glaciers, findings that will likely influence previous research of how climate change has impacted ...

1 University of Colorado INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences 2 University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences 3 University of Colorado INSTAAR and Department of Geological ...

JOSEPH – Everyone who visits Wallowa Lake, the jewel of Northeast Oregon, knows what a beautiful sight it is, sparkling in the sun of late summer as it rests between the protecting arms of the glacial ...

Sidney Stevens is a writer and editor for magazines, websites, and books, with a focus on health and environmental issues. As glaciers retreat, they leave piles of rocks and debris that they once ...

The remarkable moraine patterns of Malaspina Glacier – the largest piedmont glacier in the world – are featured in this false-colour image acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-2. Malaspina Glacier is ...

Earlier this month, we wrapped up the latest annual end-of-summer snowline survey over New Zealand’s South Island (Te Waipounamu), providing a birdseye view of how glaciers fared during the past year.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The captions for NASA Goddard’s Instagram account are nearly as ...

The remarkable moraine patterns of Malaspina Glacier – the largest piedmont glacier in the world – are featured in this false-colour image acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-2. Malaspina Glacier is ...

The Waiho Loop moraine in New Zealand's southern Alps had long been viewed as a southern icon of a recent glacier response to cooling climate, possibly the Younger Dryas cold event. But a closer look ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the ice age advance began to melt, glacial deposits or drift were left behind. These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly ...