Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency ... the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

The findings are published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The study focuses on the most common natural hazards in the ...

Instead of chilled glasses and champagne bubbles to ring in the New Year, how about gassy geysers and frosty avalanches ... our northern hemisphere on Earth, on the Red Planet, the new year ...

When the rimwall of Iapetus’s Malun crater broke off and plunged more than five miles to the crater floor, it surged an astonishing 22 miles out from the base of the wall before finally coming ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

A Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster will be holding a free avalanche awareness talk at the Keystone Science School on Tuesday, Jan. 28. At the event, forecaster Andrew McWilliams ...