There is a particular kind of silence among glaciologists when they talk about certain glaciers. Not uncertainty exactly - more like the quiet discomfort of knowing something the rest of the world ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

A bright red waterfall bursting from beneath the Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica lies right in the middle of one of the coldest regions on Earth. Blood falls is among the most mysterious ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a bid to stop it collapsing into the ocean, triggering a disastrous rise ...

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in Pine Island Bay, ...

Harold Lovell receives funding from NERC. Chris Stokes receives funding from the NERC. Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Portsmouth ...