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Glaciers are cooling the air around them to resist rising temperatures—but scientists say this self-defense won’t last.

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

New research reveals glaciers are steadily losing their battle against the impacts of climate change. Glaciers appear to be ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates ...

20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, hulking formations of flowing ice stretched across the Southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado. Most of those glaciers melted away by around ...

An e-mail from Chris asks how glaciers form. Simply put, glaciers form when the snow cover from one winter does not melt before the next winter's snow arrives. This causes layering of each year's snow ...

Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...

During Earth's ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began to melt rapidly, and the resulting water had to go ...