Usually, Boulay says, ice-out occurs when a lake is roughly 90% ice-free, and when a boat may be successfully launched.

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

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

As temperatures saw a quick warmup into the low 70s Tuesday, deputies were cautioning those headed to the outdoors about ...

Between 2000 and 2023, Earth's 215,000 glaciers have been losing ice at an alarming rate-273 gigatonnes annually. That's ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are expanding at an alarming rate, increasing the risk of catastrophic floods for nearby ...

Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier. Those floods, including in 2024, were driven by a melting ...

Accelerating glacier melt could trigger an avalanche of cascading impacts on economies, ecosystems and communities.

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, home to the world's largest ice reserves outside the Arctic and Antarctic, is ...

Satellite analyses by Suhora Technologies, which monitors 33,000 lakes across the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra basins, ...