Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets and glaciers are deforming and moving.

This is a corrie - an armchair shaped hollow found high on mountains where glaciers form. Layers of snow compact into ice and start moving down the mountain. As the ice moves, it plucks rock from ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures ... But as more glacial lakes form and expand, floods and other risks are rising. A study published in 2024 counted ...

Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in the western Himalayas. They found that most of these glaciers contain ...