"Glacier velocity could be a valuable new technique for monitoring volcanic activity," researcher Joseph Mallalieu said.

California may be known as the Golden State, with its shimmering beaches and warm Mediterranean climate. But clinging to the ...

This trail manages to encompass much of Wisconsin's beauty in one long route, featuring more than 1,000 miles of scenery and ancient glacial formations.

For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ...

Over 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a dramatic climate event known as the Sturtian glaciation, one of the most extreme ice ages in history. During this period, the planet was encased in ice ...

Andean glaciers advanced during an acute period of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, new research has found.

“The tram is surveyed routinely to track its movement, and inspected methodically by Doppelmayr engineers from Europe who are familiar with installations on glaciers,” he said. The tram is one long ...

Research on the Quaternary glaciation of the Iberian Peninsula reveals a complex record of glacial advances and retreats interwoven with episodes of rapid climate change. Detailed geomorphological and ...

INSTAAR senior research associate Alton Byers has organized frequent research expeditions to the Himalayas for more than 50 years. Last summer, he returned to the remote Kanchenjunga region in Nepal, ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...