In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West
The photo above shows the sculptured blue ice of Perito Moreno Glacier in the southern Andes Mountains, near Santa Cruz, Argentina. This scenic glacier is
Located just 600 miles (970 kilometers) from the North Pole, Franz Josef Land is perpetually coated with ice. Glaciers cover roughly 85 percent of the
Astonishing moon photography by Carlos Zelayeta.
The Parallel Roads of Scotland’s Glen Roy were not built by the Picts, Romans, fairies or even space aliens. As a matter of fact, they
An iceberg is a large piece of ice from freshwater that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in
The photo above showing the sinuous Aletsch Glacier was captured from near the summit of Eggishorn (9,600 ft or 2,926 m), in the eastern Bernese
In August 2010, the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland calved an ice island roughly four times the size of Manhattan. Nearly a
The photo above shows the scenic Blackstone Glacier emptying into Blackstone Bay in southeastern Alaska. Blackstone Glacier is one of a number of tidewater glaciers
At first, you might hear a sharp crack or a rumble, and then, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to witness a tidewater glacier calving into
The Erebus glacier in Antarctica comes down from Mt. Erebus and protrudes off the coast of Ross Island, forming an 11-12 km long ice tongue—a
A man walks through a large ice tunnel formed by the shifting of icebergs along the terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska.
