It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Glaciers San Rafael and San Quintin have retreated significantly since 1987, showing the impact of global warming on Earth's ...

Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, broke off the ...

A large chunk of ice broke off in spectacular fashion from the Bruggen Glacier in southern Chile, recent video shows. This footage captured by Ralph Velasco shows the huge chunk crashing into the ...

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the UN's World Meteorological Organization weather, climate and water agency said ...

Embark on an extraordinary adventure as we sail through Alaska's pristine waters to reach a massive calving glacier. Witness the awe-inspiring spectacle of ice chunks breaking away, all while ...

A landmass that was previously encased in the ice of Alaska's Alsek Glacier is now fully surrounded by water, forming a new island in the state, NASA satellite images reveal. The nearly ...

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...

Researchers from the University of Washington placed fiber-optic cables on the ocean floor near a Greenland glacier and found that collapsing ice creates giant underwater waves, which accelerate ...