SEATTLE Mount St. Helens’ Crater Glacier continues to grow while most others around the world are shrinking. Ray Yurkewycz perched on the rim of the Northwest’s most restless volcano and ...

Today, an international team of scientists describes what they say is a huge new impact crater that lies under northwestern Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier. If confirmed, it would be the first ...

There's another feature inside the crater that's often overlooked in this active volcano. It's also a relative rarity: a glacier that's growing in size, not shrinking. The Crater Glacier ...

One crater on Mars shows signs of an ancient glacier that melted from the top down. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

the lava dome growing inside and the glacier fed by avalanches of snow and debris from the crater walls. The view on clear days features Mount Adams, Mount Rainier and Spirit Lake on the horizon.

Explorers must crouch as they make their way down from entrance holes at the glacier’s surface, crawling along the steep crater to the main ring nearly 500 feet below. “It takes a minute to ...

On Aug. 15, Wershow conducted environmental research on Bend Glacier meltwater and how it feeds into our canal system. Wershow’s area of focus is Crater Creek Ditch, often called “The Ditch ...

Few people realize, he said, that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world’s youngest glacier. And if that’s not surprising enough, the ...