Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

For more than four decades, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has made an annual pilgrimage to the glaciers of Washington's North Cascades, meticulously documenting his retreat in what has become one of the ...

Wang Feiteng (1st L), a glacier scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explains ice core drilling operation to a group ...

Tara Carolin’s career in Glacier National Park was one of service to science and discovery. Carolin recently retired as the director of the Crown of the Continent Research and Learning Center in ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...

Dec. 26—Visitors to Glacier National Park next summer should expect some changes, including selecting a time slot for a vehicle reservation and having limited access to Many Glacier. Superintendent ...

For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in the US Northwest, developing and honing skills now used worldwide.