Transporting stones on donkeys from nearby mountains, Asim and his family are trying to restore their damaged home. He recalled a time when glaciers were much closer to the village.

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers ...

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

The glaciers of Switzerland, which has the most of any country in continental Europe, are fading because of global warming.

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

Glaciers in Canada, the U.S., and the Alps have lost 12% of their volume since 2001, as heatwaves and soot drive melt rates ...

Glaciers around the world are now melting at unprecedented rates and are likely to continue shrinking well into the 22nd Century. Scorching heat has tormented northern Italy already this summer.

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

Mountain glaciers – frozen rivers of ice – act as a freshwater resource for billions of people worldwide and lock up enough water to raise global sea-levels by 32cm, if they melted entirely.

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 ...

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

Glacier shrinkage has wide impacts on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels, and border tensions when it comes to ...