CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the ...

Iowa boasts a lake that was formed by the remains of glaciers that once blanketed the area, and its namesake town is a great ...

The five Great Lakes together form the greatest connected area of fresh water on earth. The basins of the Great Lakes were probably scooped out by glaciers during the Ice Age. As the glaciers pushed ...

Glacial lakes are common in the Himalayas, as this satellite view shows. Some are dammed by glaciers, other by moraines. Photo: NASA In August 2023, residents of Juneau, Alaska, watched as the ...

The lakes form in the bedrock and in scalloped depressions in the moraine. The glacial flour colors them a milky-white or turquoise-blue (imagine the hue of a bottle of Aqua Velva aftershave), and ...

CHANDIGARH: Glaciers in Himachal's Dhauladhar mountain ranges are receding at a fast pace, indicating potential for water scarcity in the Kangra Valley, states a recent scientific study published in ...

Brianna Rick received funding from The National Science Foundation. In August 2023, residents of Juneau, Alaska, watched as the Mendenhall River swelled to historic levels in a matter of hours. The ...