The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

The research, led by the University of Bristol in the UK and the University of Innsbruck in Austria, presents the first global simulations of glacier change up to 2500 under so-called ‘overshoot’ ...

Across Antarctica, Greenland, and other polar areas, icy glaciers cover large areas of land and extend into the sea. These glaciers shrink and grow with the seasons. Jonathan Bamber of the University ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

Glaciers are disappearing as a result of global warming. In the Alps, for example, there are now only half as many as there were in the middle of the 19th century. Even if climate change is halted ...

An international team of researchers has made an ominous discovery: our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously predicted, in large part due to human-driven ...

Even when it breaks our hearts.” — Julia Rosen, science writer Matanuska Glacier is what locals call a “drive-up glacier.” In southcentral Alaska, where half the state’s population lives ...

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries—even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it. The research ...