Even though "glacial" is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed ...

The Sheer Beauty of Glaciers Imagine a vast expanse of ice stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is the sight that greets you when you visit nearly any glacier in the world. They are like ...

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR).Detailed study of a Greenland ...

Plucking – sometimes rocks get frozen to the base, sides and back wall of the glacier. The movement of the glacier pulls these frozen rocks away. Abrasion – rocks trapped in the glacier rub ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new ...

Open the walk-in freezer in Iverson's campus lab and you're looking at a 9-foot-tall ring-shear device that's been simulating glacial forces and movement since 2009. At the center of the device is ...

AMES, Iowa – Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when asked to describe a research paper about glacier ice flow that has just been published by the journal Science. First, said the ...

The ring-shear device in Neal Iverson's laboratory. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for ...

The remains of a man discovered near an Austrian glacier have been identified as those of a German mountaineer who died almost 60 years ago, local police said on Thursday. The German man's bones ...

To better understand the melting (ablation) of the Glacier, MTRI designed and fabricated a device to record glacier melt and movement. The instrument, deployed on the ice, recorded temperature, ...