Austria and Italy's border was drawn in 1919, after the countries fought a high-altitude war. Mountain ridges define parts of ...

And the ice? That has slid through the landscape ... We are heading to the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier - at once beautiful and also disconcerting. A hundred years ago, the glacier would have ...

"We're standing on the Khumbu Glacier right now and although it looks a rather static sight and quite beautiful with blue ... Millions and millions of tons of ice are slowly moving.

The explorers suspect the beautiful formations account for a significant loss of the glacier’s ice, and they have set out to measure how much these openings are increasing in size each year.

Glaciers like these provide drinking water to communities during their dry seasons. As they melt, this water supply dwindles and lost ice causes seas to rise. In 1971, researchers made a ...

Had it been frozen in the glacier’s ice for days, weeks or six months or ... the unlocking of a frozen land and the birth of so much beautiful life as the Alaskan spring transformed the land.

When light hits the compacted glacier ice, long wavelength colors (reds) are absorbed ... Many visitors hope to see bald ...

Here's everything you need to know before visiting Glacier National Park in Montana ... If you already have the $80 annual ...

As glaciers and ice patches melt, they reveal untold stories of human skill, adventure, faith – and deadly conflict.

The radiantly blue glacial lakes on the Findel Glacier were covered by dozens of metres of ice a decade ago Switzerland's glaciers have lost a further 4% of their volume this year - the second ...

Bedrock recently exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, paleoclimatologist ...