Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe's Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of ...

So what are these rocks and how did they wind up in the Midwest? KSNT News spoke with Tony Layzell, an assistant scientist ...

A new study brings attention to a different type of glacier - Rock glaciers, which are landforms composed of rocks and ice, ...

The melting of glaciers, a direct effect of global warming, is accelerating and bringing serious consequences for people and ...

Inch by inch, as massive glaciers crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea, they scoured the ground beneath them, gouging and scraping rocks from Earth’s crust. When the glaciers ...

We studied sections of rock, from older to younger, through the snowball period to melt down. By doing this, we built up a picture of what the glaciers and the subsequent river systems were doing ...

Traces of these events can be seen across the globe in sedimentary rocks formed under glacial conditions, strongly suggesting that ice spread from the poles to reach the equatorial region.

Inch by inch, as massive glaciers crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea, they scoured the ground beneath them, gouging and scraping rocks from Earth’s crust. When the glaciers eventually ...

During the years of the snowball Earths, the researchers found signs that older uranium-containing rocks were being broken down. They hypothesized that, as giant glaciers inched across Earth ...