glaciology

Researchers say two more major calving events are likely. A massive slab of floating ice broke away from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland on August 4, 2026, creating a 76.4 km² ice island. An international research group led in part by the University of Ottawa says it was Petermann’s largest floating ice loss since 2012 [...]

Active crustal deformation in the Eastern and Southern Alps demonstrating rigid block tectonics with indentation and lateral (out of orogen) crustal extrusion tectonics as the main players. Credit: Grützner et al. [2026] , Figure 17

Officials say the bodies of two Belgian mountaineers missing for over three decades in the Swiss Alps have been found

New solutions to two interlinked mysteries reveal how and why the Antarctic’s enormous ice sheet formed.

Scientists mapped the evolution of 140 glacial lakes in Alaska and found a way to tell how much larger and destructive they can get as their glaciers melt.

Antarctica's melting ice will devastate some coastlines while sparing others—and physics dictates that those closest to the ice may fare better than distant shores.

Antarctica dominates meteorite collections because moving ice, mountain barriers, wind and sublimation gather widely scattered falls into small blue-ice stranding zones.

A German and Turkish research team is studying a shrinking glacier as a record of past climate and environmental change. More than 5,000 meters above sea level, amid intense cold, strong winds, and oxygen levels roughly half those in the valley below, a German-Turkish research team conducted the first survey of Mount Ararat’s glacier in [...]

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A camera lowered hundreds of feet beneath Antarctica's ice captured something no one on the expedition expected to see. The footage highlighted just how little scientists know about the hidden world beneath the frozen continent.

A 2024 astronaut photo shows the icy surface of Pangong Lake breaking apart in the lofty Tibetan Plateau. The point where the ice meets the water almost perfectly matches a disputed border between China and India.

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Published online: 04 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41612-026-01499-1 Effects of rainfall on permafrost degradation in alpine desert regions of the Tibetan Plateau

Formation and sudden drainage of glacial lakes pose increasing hazards in high-mountain regions, threatening downstream communities, infrastructure and ecosystems. Accurate bathymetric reconstruction and lake volume estimation are crucial for flood modeling, hazard assessment, and monitoring climate-driven glacial lake dynamics. This study uses a recently drained lake at the margin of Gornerglets…

The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing a network of melt features. The post A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap appeared first on NASA Science .

Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.

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