In 2019 hundreds of mourners, many wearing black, attended a funeral for the glacier led by a priest and glaciologists.

The worlds of international diplomacy, environmental urgency, and high-art preservation converged this week, spotlighting Midland native and filmmaker Mark H. Starks as his environmental documentary, ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. PBS ...

Researchers calculated every glacier’s lifespan and found that even at the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the planet ...

MORTERATSCH, Switzerland — Almost 7,000 feet above sea level, the trail leading up to Morteratsch Glacier gets a little longer every year. Leo Hösli has made the climb many times. Each step sends ...

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS ...

Models produced by climate scientists in the 2000s suggested that the masses of ice that gave Glacier National Park its name ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

Glaciers in the Himalayan region are melting at an unusual rate, endangering downstream towns and India's water supplies. Experts are calling for quick solutions to address this situation. According ...