PASADENA, Calif. A study by NASA and Louisiana State University scientists finds that sediments deposited into the Mississippi River Delta thousands of years ago when North America’s glaciers ...

Earth's outer layer is composed of giant plates that grind together, sliding past or dipping beneath one another, giving rise to earthquakes and volcanoes. These plates also separate at undersea ...

A wedge of sediment, pushed up by glacial movement, may be a buffer against moderate sea level rise, pointing to ocean temperature rise as the key factor in glacial retreat, according to two papers ...

Atle Nesje, Jostein Bakke, Stephen J. Brooks, Darrell S. Kaufman, Emma Kihlberg, Mathias Trachsel, William J. D'Andrea and John A. Matthews Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Vol. 23, No. 3, Special ...

A team of past and present INSTAAR researchers have reconstructed the history of Teton Glacier, Wyoming, by analyzing sediment from alpine lakes. Their work is documented in a new study published in ...

Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The waters of Commencement Bay off the shores of Tacoma continue to be clouded by what is called “glacial flour” after extreme temperatures led to an increase in snowmelt in recent ...

University of Dayton geologist Umesh Haritashya will study the potential hazard risk of suspended sediment in glacier-fed lakes and rivers in South America’s Andes mountain range under a $339,812 ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Full-tilt chaos has descended on the Arctic, a region that’s now warming twice as fast as ...