It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

GREENFIELDBOYCE: The ice cores they drilled out are shaped like cylinders, and they're made up of layers. These ice layers were created by falling snow that got deposited over time. So they're kind of ...

PARIS — Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record. Here are some key points about the planet’s ice as human-induced ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...