Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ...

Without the erosive forces of water, wind, and ice, rock debris would simply pile up where it forms and obscure from view nature's weathered sculptures. Although erosion is a natural process ...

Since 1973, ice coverage has fallen by 77% on Lake Michigan and 71% on the Great Lakes as a whole. That has a far-reaching impact on coast erosion, aquatic ecosystems and Great Lakes shipping.

During the harsh winter months, Prince Edward Island loses its coastline to erosion every year. But a student with the UPEI ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing time ...

Glacier ice has great erosive power removing almost ... They get cut off so while erosion makes the main valley deeper and deeper, the smaller valley is left hanging higher up above the valley ...

They identified an erosion rate of >4.1mm/yr for 2006 to 2011, which has approximately doubled from the estimated maximum of 2.2mm/yr during the Little Ice Age. Some isolated rock faces have even ...

The legacy of long-ago ice erosion, these pale in comparison to the troughs spiraling across the northern ice cap of Mars. Every spring, the sublimated carbon dioxide forms winds, which gain speed ...