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 ...

Snow and glaciers work a bit like a frozen water bottle on a hot summer day: They melt into refreshing cold water at just the ...

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

The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13 ...

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

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.

The glaciers that sit high in the Andes—or Andean Mountain Range—extend through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and provide water used for domestic consumption ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the ...

The glaciers that sit high in the Andes -- or Andean Mountain Range -- extend through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and provide water used for domestic consumption ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world ...