From food to industry, the process of making glacial acetic acid shows how science transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Around 60 hikers were airlifted from Bugaboo Provincial Park when gushing water from a glacial lake suddenly blocked their ...

Six homes sustained damage considered major, according to early assessments that also found repairs to a damaged bridge will ...

Meltwater is escaping from a basin that is dammed by a glacier - prompting fears of a deluge in state capital Juneau.

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have killed many thousands since the first one was reported in Iceland in the year 850. Fortunately, no one died in the Gongbatongsha deluge.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Juneau, the Mendenhall River crested at 16.65 feet – which now ...

Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the ...

One of the best places to see evidence of glacial features in Northern Ireland, is in the Drumlin Belt that stretches from County Down through Counties Armagh and Cavan. As the last Ice sheet ...

The Himalayas have lost 40% of their glacial mass since the Little Ice Age. East Nepal and Bhutan have experienced the most rapid losses.