Glaciers San Rafael and San Quintin have retreated significantly since 1987, showing the impact of global warming on Earth's ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates ...

Scientists have uncovered that glaciers can temporarily cool the air around them, delaying some effects of global warming.

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Scientists warn that climate change is destabilising mountainsides above Alaska’s fjords, threatening cruise ships and ...

Glacier retreat across India is changing river flows, forming new glacial lakes, and threatening water supplies. If similar ...

This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world ...

The bedrock beneath Pine Island Glacier on the peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica held pink granite boulders ...

The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that ...

Glaciers are cooling the air around them to resist rising temperatures—but scientists say this self-defense won’t last.

GENEVA — Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest ...

New research reveals glaciers are steadily losing their battle against the impacts of climate change. Glaciers appear to be ...