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 ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

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.

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.

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

Shrinking glaciers are causing tonnes of rock to break loose from one of Switzerland's most famous mountains, the Eiger, and crash into the valley below. On the east face of the Eiger, two million ...