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.

Attorney General Todd Rokita is suing General Motors and OnStar alleging the linked companies engaged in deceptive practices by secretly collecting and selling Indiana drivers' personal data to third ...

One of the big questions about Mars is how wet was it in the past, and why is it so dry today? A new study published online ...

Mars has experienced multiple ice ages, with each one leaving less ice than the last. By studying craters that serve as “ice archives,” researchers traced how the red planet stored and lost its water ...

Switzerland's glaciers experienced significant melting, witnessing the fourth-largest ice volume reduction due to minimal snowfall and June heatwaves. Additionally, researchers have made headway in ...

Satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory have revealed that a new island appeared in southeastern Alaska over the summer. Unfortunately, however, it’s not the sort of appearance that calls for ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from the shoreline of Alsek Lake sometime this summer, transforming a mountain known as Prow Knob into an island. NASA Satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory have ...

The new Prow Knob island in southeastern Alaska finally separated from a receding glacier after a decades-long break-up. We ...

RHÔNE GLACIER, Switzerland — On a hotel veranda overlooking Lake Lucerne, Barbara Achrainer sips a latte and, with a sigh, peers at sightseers boarding a tour boat. It's a warm summer afternoon and ...

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