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 ...

Antarctica is the world's largest desert. It is also covered in ice sheets that are 4 kilometers thick on the eastern side of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and 2 kilometers thick on the west. So how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The floods that slammed into two ...

They say time is an ever-flowing river and these ones take a LOT of time. This week, we’re bundled up and headed far north (or south) in search of glaciers. * First, the basics. Glaciers really are ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

Simply put, glaciers form when the snow cover from one winter does not melt before the next winter's snow arrives. This causes layering of each year's snow on top of all the previous years' snow. Over ...

On a map, have students locate Greenland and Antarctica on the map. Tell them that Greenland's continental ice sheet contains the second largest amount of frozen freshwater in the world, after ...

Simply put, glaciers form when the snow cover from one winter does not melt before the next winter's snow arrives. This causes layering of each year's snow on top of all the previous years' snow. Over ...

The beautiful and distinctive U-shaped glacial valleys typical of alpine areas from Alaska to New Zealand have fascinated and frustrated geologists for centuries. While it seems obvious that glaciers ...

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 ...

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