It’s a rare sight to witness a glacier break apart and fall into the sea. But a handful of people were lucky enough to witness the extraordinary phenomena, recently, at the Bruggen Glacier in Chile. A ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. PBS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: “This is a dying glacier.” Switzerland’s Gries Glacier is disappearing at an alarming pace. Climate change is accelerating ...

As the planet warms, the world’s glaciers are melting faster than snow can replenish the ice. That has implications for sea level rise, ocean currents, and global weather patterns. But collecting data ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

Inside the extremely niche world of glacier surfing – as in, riding waves created by a collapsing (or calving) iceberg – the main place it has been done, in the past, is Alaska. Novelty surf ...

In the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, no one likely knows this glacier better than Mauri Pelto, who says, "My life has been shaped by this ice." For more than 40 years, Pelto, a ...