Patagonia is an impressively diverse region with a wide variety of landscapes. Expansive forests, open grasslands, arid deserts and imposing mountain ranges characterize the region. But it was not ...

The unprecedented rates of warming and melting of vast ice masses in Greenland have also led to movements in the bedrock from the last Ice Age.

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

Seattle’s geography resulted from an ice sheet that scoured the landscape 16,000 years ago. From the hills and ridges that all run north to south to the huge freshwater lakes that define the region, ...

Midnight view of the Greenland Ice Sheet near Ilulissat in July 1991. The background shows the vast ice sheet, while the foreground fjord is choked with icebergs released by one of the world’s fastest ...

A recent study has unearthed evidence of a 9,000-year-old ice melt in Antarctica, shedding light on the alarming speed at ...

Traveling up from the Mars equator toward its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region ...