New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide ...

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

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

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...

A remarkable image taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) offers a breathtaking view of three glaciers merging into one massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountain range.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Miriam Jackson, the Eurasia and Nordic director of the International ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...

A recent study reported in Nature Communications highlighted the loss of glaciers in the Arctic, which has been shown to be the fastest-warming place on Earth in recent decades. The increasing levels ...

Scientists have repeatedly warned of accelerated Himalayan melt, with impacts on river flows, water security and hydropower generation across India and neighbouring countries.

An artist's conception of "Snowball Earth," when the planet was either completely or largely covered in ice hundreds of millions of years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

Boston, Mass. – Glacial deposits that formed on tropical land areas during snowball Earth episodes around 600 million years ago, lead to questions about how the glaciers that left the deposits were ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to a ...