Magma started flowing in Holuhraun at 5:00 AM this morning. The eruption is located on the same fissure as the previous eruption on Friday morning, but is many times larger. This is the third eruption ...

Two days later, we were standing in a howling gale peering into the maw of a 300-foot crevasse. I squinted across at Jack, who was barely visible in the whiteout, snow and blowing ice pelting our ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on Earth, and its future remains a major uncertainty in global sea-level rise ...

Satellite images reveal a new island in Alaska's Alsek Lake, formed as retreating glaciers reshape the landscape. NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska's coast that emerged after ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt downstream, ...

A huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier started to release on Tuesday, as officials urged residents in some parts of the state capital of Juneau to ...

The Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina was previously considered stable. What was once considered the most stable glacier in the Patagonia region is experiencing ice loss at rates far greater than ...

Two satellite photos taken 33 years apart show the disappearance of a glacier in Iceland that was the first ice mass to be declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. Okjökull was a dome ...

The monumental glacier is over 3,000 feet (900 m) deep in some places and conceals several active volcanoes below its surface, the most famous being Grímsvötn, Öræfajökull and Bárðarbunga. Geologists ...

One of Iceland's largest volcanoes is on the brink of erupting, experts have warned. Bárðarbunga – the second-largest volcano in the country – has been hit with a swarm of 130 earthquakes within just ...

An "unusually large" ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern ...

Scientists studying Thwaites Glacier, ominously dubbed the "Doomsday Glacier," have unveiled a rapidly evolving and complex environment that could lead to dramatic sea-level rise in the centuries ...