"We lack field measurements to verify their accuracy." Scientists make surprising discovery after sending robots to study ...

Ken Whiting is exploring Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska with Liquid Alaska Tours in this segment from Facing Waves.

Glacier National Park has 13 on-site campgrounds, most of which are open seasonally, and roughly half require advance reservations. Two of the park’s campgrounds—Apgar and St. Mary—are open year-round ...

Alaska has a way of making you feel insignificant in the most magnificent way possible, and nowhere demonstrates this better than Kachemak Bay State Park near Homer. When Mother Nature was handing out ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier — the disintegration of which could send between two and 10 feet of devastating ...

As the icebreaker Araon sailed back and forth alongside the Thwaites Glacier collecting oceanographic data on Thursday and Friday, our photographer took the opportunity to make some close-ups. “I ...

Scientists have never loved the scary nickname journalists have given the glacier where the current Antarctic expedition is headed: the “Doomsday Glacier.” Yes, the Thwaites Glacier is the size of ...

The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the “Doomsday Glacier” — because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Now, for the first time, scientists have ...

The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide is expected to sharply increase. The number of glaciers disappearing around the world each year is projected to sharply increase by the mid-century, ...

Thanh-Son Pham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere ...