In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

To determine the age of rock glaciers, these researchers tested samples from boulders on the surface of the glaciers for a rare isotope of the element beryllium. The results indicate how long the ...

Falling rocks struck people on a hiking trail in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, killing one and injuring three others Thursday ...

Search teams located a second body following a massive rockfall off a hiking trail in Canada’s Banff National Park.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Falling rocks struck people on a hiking trail in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, killing one and injuring three others Thursday.

A section of a trail in Banff National Park remains closed to visitors two weeks after a rockfall killed two hikers and ...

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

Shrinking glaciers are causing tonnes of rock to break loose from one of Switzerland's most famous mountains, the Eiger, and crash into the valley below. On the east face of the Eiger, two million ...

Glaciers in Canada, the U.S., and the Alps have lost 12% of their volume since 2001, as heatwaves and soot drive melt rates ...

A RETIRED professor has been named as the first victim of the deadly rock slide in Canada which killed one other. Jutta Hinrichs, 70, a former lecturer at the University of Alberta, was found dead ...