Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them ...

Glaciers are melting rapidly, reducing ice and freshwater supplies, increasing sea levels, and threatening global water ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

The Power of Ice Cores Ice cores are like time capsules that hold the secrets of Earth's past climate. Scientists drill deep ...

Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting ...

A fleet of satellites has been used to monitor glaciers worldwide using optical, radar, laser and gravity measurements. From top: CryoSat, Terra, ICESat, and the twin GRACE spacecraft, above a map of ...

The Alps and Pyrénées are among the hardest-hit areas, having shed around 40% of their mass in 20 years, according to a study ...

Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting ...

Beneath the great white continent, several kilometers away, numerous active volcanoes, such as Mount Erebus, could accelerate ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was built up from data contributions from many glaciological ...