"Under its weight, the glacier slides across its bed and deforms, but as it thins it finds it more difficult to slide and deform; it's kind of intuitive. "But until now there had been some debate ...

The Petermann Glacier slides toward the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland, terminating in a giant floating ice tongue. Like other glaciers that end in the ocean, Petermann periodically ...

"Glacier velocity could be a valuable new technique for monitoring volcanic activity," researcher Joseph Mallalieu said.

Scientists have proposed radical plan to stop a massive Antarctic glacier from melting that would cause catastrophic flooding ...