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 ...
An e-mail from Chris asks how glaciers form. 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 ...
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 ...
About a century before Glacier Bay became a national park, conservationist John Muir visited the landform now called Russell ...
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 ...
Mars may have experienced up to 20 ice ages in the past 300 to 800 million years, according to the results of a new study. Glaciers that formed during the cooling periods represent fascinating targets ...
Mercury as depicted in fake colors that show the differences in composition on the surface.Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington Mercury, the closest planet to our sun and the second ...
Andean glaciers advanced during an acute period of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, new research has found.
A new study analyzing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake drainage hazards. New research has ...
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