"They lose the ability to behave." Researchers issue warning about irreversible phenomenon set to have massive global impact: ...

Between May and September this year, avalanches, landslides and flashfloods tore through mountain communities in Switzerland, Nepal and Pakistan, wiping out infrastructure and causing deaths and ...

Yosemite looked very different one hundred million years ago. Towering volcanoes existed here then making up a vast mountain chain similar to the modern Andes Mountains in South America. Deep beneath ...

Melting glaciers are causing land erosion around the globe, wearing down bedrock at rates that usually fall between about 0.0008 and 0.11 inches (0.02 to 2.8 millimeters) per year. That single range ...

Researcher Dominik Gräff (left) and a crew member on their way to shore in a Zodiac boat. Credit: Julia Schmale, EPFL Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg ...

ABSTRACT: Wind erosion is a major environmental problem in the Sahel and other dry regions of the world. It leads to nutrient loss and reduced soil productivity. However, wind transport of nutrients ...

Glaciers, nature’s slow-moving sculptors, are reshaping our planet in ways we can now measure with unprecedented precision. Using machine learning to study 85% of the world’s modern glaciers, an ...

What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a ...

Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies and continue to change the Earth’s surface. But how fast do glaciers sculpt the landscape?

Travelers heading into the Mt. Baker National Forest will see alternating traffic on State Route 542 for the next two months as the state Department of Transportation works on the bridge over Bagley ...

Did you know Norway has over 1,000 fjords along its coast? This adds up to 15,500 miles of coastline. If you straighten out all these fjords, it would be 51,000 miles long. This shows the power of ...