NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

Earth was a very different place during its Cryogenian period, around 700 million years ago. It was covered head-to-toe in kilometers-deep dice as huge frozen rivers churned across the planet’s rocky ...

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

Ancient glaciers triggered floods that altered ocean chemistry, supporting evolving life. Scientists uncover how past events ...

In some cases, they darken the glacier surface so much that is even visible on satellite images. "In view of the fact that the climate is getting warmer and ever more snow-free areas and thus more ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed ...

Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's ... Physically, snow and ice have a cooling effect on ...

The winter months have provided hikers with the rare chance to explore ice caves carved by melting ice on a glacier in eastern Switzerland.

Glaciers are found in mountain locations and in the coldest ... When the light of all visible colors is absorbed by an object, the surface will appear black. When all visible colors are reflected off ...

And then, she said, a huge chunk of the glacier crashed onto the ice, shattering it and triggering waves beneath the frozen surface. “I just skated for my life. It was pretty surreal in the moment.