The Canadian Encyclopedia notes a rockslide can move up to 100 km/hr.

"They are the lifelines of our nations." Experts issue dire warning as growing crisis threatens water supplies: 'The time to ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has revealed that Asia is heating up nearly twice as fast as the global average, raising serious concerns about climate change impacts in ...

Erosion transports the fragments away ... Back up on the mountains, snow and ice build up into glaciers that weigh on the rocks beneath and slowly push them downhill under the force of gravity.

Scientists sent a torpedo-shaped robot beneath the Thwaites Glacier in January 2020. The craft discovered crevasses and stair-like fractures in the ice that are speeding up erosion. Results were ...

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...

Thwaites Glacier — otherwise known as the "Doomsday Glacier," nicknamed due to the fact it could raise the sea level by several feet — is allegedly hanging on "by its fingernails." ...

"On Earth, this glacial motion has produced scoured landscapes in northern Europe and North America," Grau Galofre wrote. "Mars lacks such large-scale glacial erosion even in areas with other ...

A tragic rockslide at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park has claimed the lives of two hikers and left three others ...

(MENAFN- AzerNews) The landslide in the western Georgian municipality of Oni that killed at least 18 people in the Shovi resort on August 3 was caused by intense melting of glaciers, collapse of ...