The size of the largest tropical glacier, located in the Andes Mountains of southeastern Peru, has been monitored by Ohio ...

In fact, they're shrinking so rapidly that some of the Alps' glaciers have already disappeared ... areas beneath the famed ...

Saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a 'survival strategy' for the planet, the U.N. said on Tuesday, a day after ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.

Montanans are constantly tracking water, whether coming from the sky or flowing in ditches. Why should people care about glacier loss? It has a huge economic cost as well.

But the study’s analysis of rock samples adjacent to four glaciers in the Andes Mountains shows that glacial retreat has happened far faster and already passed an alarming cross-epoch benchmark, said ...

And on Friday, the region played host to the planet's largest postcard. Laid out on the shrinking Aletsch Glacier, this huge mosaic is actually made from 125,000 drawings and messages about ...

UNESCO has dubbed 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation. A new exhibit at Banff's Whyte Museum, called Meltdown: A Drop in Time, showcases the works of Métis artist and architect ...

Yala glacier in Nepal is predicted to vanish by the 2040s, due to significant reductions in area and volume. Monitoring since 1974 shows a retreat of 680m and a 36% area reduction. This glacier is ...