A review of data showed that the Birch Glacier was a rarity in that it has been advancing while most glaciers have been ...

Glaciers are breathtaking — towering, shimmering blue-white giants that seem timeless and unmovable. But according to a new ...

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

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

Melting of the third pole What comes out strongly is the danger to our environment, to people and wildlife when we tamper with rivers. The Himalayas are home to the largest ice mass outside the polar ...

Glaciers around the world are now melting at twice the rate measured just two decades ago. Between 2000 and 2023, they lost an ice mass equivalent to 46,000 Great Pyramids of Giza.

A glacier in Tibet’s Aru mountain range suddenly collapsed in 2016, killing nine people and their livestock, followed a few months later by the collapse of another glacier.

However, when glaciers melt rapidly, the immense water runoff stresses local ecosystems, reduces water security for people, flora and fauna, and contributes to rising sea levels.

Glacier retreat in the Western Himalayas has great consequences, impacting water resources, ecosystems, local communities, and disaster risks. Major river systems receive their melt water from the ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023.

Western Canada’s glacier melt is accelerating at an alarming rate because of human-caused climate change, according to a global study co-authored by one of B.C.’s top glaciologists. The ...