The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, invites you to attend a Master's Thesis Defense by Matthew Witscheber on "Sediment and Cation Composition ...

Discovery extends the prospective "Mickel Trend" by ~1.9 km to ~5.5 km in length, which is longer than the CV5 Pegmatite (4.6 ...

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Ski photographer Txema Trull and his partner were buried beneath six feet of snow. Here is Trull's story in his own words.

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...