Alsek Glacier disconnected from a mountain called Prow Knob sometime this past summer, making way for Alsek Lake to surround ...

The island, called Prow Knob, formed from glacier retreat, an effect of anthropogenic climate change that can have disastrous ...

Freshwater runoff from nearby melting glaciers has nearly doubled the size of Alsek Lake in the last 40 years, leading to ...

Scientists studying ancient glacier cores have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing evidence of a previously unknown ...

Additionally, scientists believe that glacier worms could play a role in fighting mitochondrial diseases in humans. By ...

Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They have discovered it ...

London — Switzerland's alpine glaciers have lost 10% of their volume over the last two years alone, the Swiss Academy of Sciences reported Thursday, calling the sudden reduction clear evidence of the ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory has announced that a new island has emerged in Alaska.A new island known as Prow Knob was previously linked with the ...

Glaciers around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented pace. A new study published in the journal "Nature" confirms that Iceland's glaciers alone have lost 8.3 billion tons of ice annually ...

Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global ...