The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

Massive underwater waves triggered by falling icebergs are playing a bigger role in Greenland’s ice loss than scientists once ...

From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

Antarctica sometimes reveals its hidden plumbing in dramatic color. At Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a rust-red seep known as Blood Falls has puzzled observers since 1911. The spectacle ...

A researcher from Italy is missing after he fell into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, authorities said. The Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that on Tuesday, Sept. 2, around 1:45 ...

In Antarctica, there’s a natural phenomenon that, for more than a century, has surprised scientists and explorers: an intense red flow of water pours out of ...

Beneath Taylor Glacier, several kilometres away from where Blood Falls emerges, there is a subglacial pool. It formed millions of years ago below hundreds of metres of ice. The water there has very ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's too late.

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...