A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50% of the glacier disintegrated. A new CU Boulder-led study, ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier lost roughly 25 kilometers of grounded ice between January 2022 and March 2023, setting the ...

Global warming is a tricksy beast. In some places, it’s transforming once-lush environments into barren deserts; in others, it’s doing essentially the opposite – albeit through an irony-fueled, monkey ...

A recent study reported in Nature Communications highlighted the loss of glaciers in the Arctic, which has been shown to be the fastest-warming place on Earth in recent decades. The increasing levels ...

As Arctic temperatures rise, marine-terminating glaciers—especially in places like Svalbard—are undergoing rapid retreat and intensified calving. The Space for Shore project utilizes radar data from ...

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization weather, climate and water agency said ...

In a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Proglacial Lab, Dr. Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller than they have been at any ...

GUWAHATI (ANI)- The Himalayas, often called the “Third Pole,” hold the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar regions and provide fresh water for more than 1.3 billion people downstream.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The landslide that buried most of a Swiss ...

Chewang Norphel's artificial glaciers store winter water, ensuring timely irrigation for Ladakh's farmers while strengthening climate resilience sustainably.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How glaciers ...