A famed explorer was sure the ice hid something profound. Ninety years later, scientists have put forth the strongest ...

Melting glaciers release more than just water. Organic matter once trapped in ice can run into streams and rivers, where it ...

The goal was to hike a little over two miles on the Matanuska Glacier about 100 miles northeast of Anchorage. The glacier is ...

Vincent Colliard, Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer pull sleds across the Juneau Icefield during their three-week ...

Free Solo' star Alex Honnold saw the effects of climate change in his climbing career. He started the Honnold Foundation to ...

This striking satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers perched between mountainous peaks on a barren island in the Canadian Arctic. The elongated ice masses, which are threatened ...

While Glacier National Park attracts some of the biggest crowds in the US NPS, check out this "second" national park of ...

Since the opening of the modern-day Furka pass road 150 years ago, thousands of tourists have come to see the unique mountain panorama around the Rhone Glacier. Today they park at the Hotel Belvédère ...

On Earth, dense snow and ice often melts from the inside out. When dust particles are embedded in the frozen water, they can ...

Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard have successfully completed their traverse of the Juneau Icefield in Alaska. This marks ...