Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured these ...

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

The Alpine regions, with their well‐preserved glacial landforms and stratigraphic records, are key archives for understanding past climate variability and landscape evolution. Over successive ...

The landscape in this park, situated in south-west New Zealand, has been shaped by successive glaciations into fjords, rocky coasts, towering cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of the park is ...

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Click the downloadable graphic: Global Annual Mass Change since 1950 UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation on January 21st.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. When you ...