New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide ...
Melting glaciers are a key indicator of the human-influenced changes to our climate. A recent study shows just how quickly glaciers are melting. An international team of researchers from the Glacier ...
In the Wasatch mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, a popular hiking trail winds up through aspen and spruce trees to reach White Pine Lake. Scott Hotaling is marching up this familiar path, but ...
The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation. It is part of an effort to highlight the importance of glaciers and their plight as the world continues to warm.
The Fundamental Physics Behind Ice Calving Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ...
A team at the University of Colorado Boulder identified a process that caused a glacier in Antarctica to retreat faster than any other grounded glacier ever recorded, researchers said, losing about ...
Why glaciers? Glaciers are important for a couple of reasons. They provide meltwater that feeds streams in the summer after snowfields have disappeared. The water is used by irrigators, hydropower ...