By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical ...

The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts of planet Earth. When the melting Birch glacier on crumbled on Wednesday, ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

The paper argues that glaciers can store antibiotic resistance genes for long periods and that climate-driven melting may ...

There’s news about glaciers, and it’s grim. Regardless of climate mitigation strategies, the world’s glaciers are on track to shrink significantly over hundreds of years, according to a new study ...

The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed, even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, a new study has found. Researchers estimate glaciers ...

Mount Rainier has lost glaciers due to the warming climate. Glacier melt threatens rivers, salmon habitats and hydropower across Washington state. South-facing glaciers without high-elevation ...

Climate change is having a tremendous impact on Western Canada glaciers, which experienced their second-worst year of ice ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Milli’s Grandpa was talking with his old friend, Mr. Gupta, who was visiting from India. “How is your area handling the drought?”, her grandfather asked. Mr. Gupta answered: “Glacier melt is helping ...