It's difficult to forget standing in front of a glacier that is advancing towards you, towering ice pillars constantly cracking as they inch forward.

The country pushed for glacier conservation in 2010, and Congress is now responsible for defending the law and preventing any rollback of those protections ...

For years, scientists have monitored the close relationship between rising carbon pollution and the melting of glaciers in the Arctic. According to a new study from researchers from the University of ...

Scientists confirmed that over 3,100 glaciers have surged. They have also identified 81 glaciers that pose the greatest danger once they have surged.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ice, ...

We might be able to tell when a volcano is about to erupt with the help of another natural wonder: glaciers. Glaciers that are within 3 miles of a volcano appear to move nearly 50 percent faster than ...

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.

As glaciers rapidly disappear, they are becoming emotional, political, and economic flashpoints - drawing crowds through last ...