Switzerland's glaciers have hit their annual "glacier loss day"—when winter's snow and ice are gone—weeks earlier than usual, according to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland. The 2024 tipping point ...

The Himalayan Mountains are home to the highest peak in Mount Everest at 29,029 feet, but also to the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Now the ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

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

As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows that detailed 3D elevation models could drastically ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of ...

The adaptive reuse design preserves the 1907 warehouse’s original Douglas fir beams and brickwork while slashing the building ...

Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.

A group of women on ice shattered the "ice ceiling" by participating in the first all-female cryosphere fieldwork expedition.

In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.