Climate change is causing the world's glaciers to disappear at an alarming rate. Scientists have been studying and modeling ...

Glacial melting can result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, agriculture and water resources being put at risk, and coastal cities being threatened by flooding.

The melting of glaciers, a direct effect of global warming, is accelerating and bringing serious consequences for people and ...

Rapid glacier melt threatens food, water and energy, with mountain regions facing severe disruptions to agriculture and ...

The United Nations’ designation of 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation underscores the urgency of ...

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how ...

High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising ...

All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024, for the third consecutive year, the United ...