Glaciers around the world are now melting at twice the rate measured just two decades ago. Between 2000 and 2023, they lost an ice mass equivalent to 46,000 Great Pyramids of Giza.

Melting glaciers pose a global threat. A Swiss glacier collapse highlights the issue. Glacial melt sustains billions, but is now causing floods and water shortages. Communities in Peru and ...

In all scenarios, glaciers lose mass rapidly over decades and then continue to melt at a slower pace for centuries — even without additional warming. A glacial collapse buried part of a village ...

A 2023 study found that Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers disappeared due to climate change between 2016 and 2020, mostly due to the ...

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, ...

Tajikistan, home to the majority of Central Asia's glaciers, is urging global action as climate change accelerates glacier melt. At a high-level international conference in Dushanbe, President ...

Glaciers will continue melting for centuries even if global temperatures stabilise immediately, according to a new study.. About 40 per cent of the world's glacier mass is already set to disappear due ...

Glaciers will continue melting for centuries even if global temperatures stabilise immediately, according to a new study.. About 40 per cent of the world's glacier mass is already set to disappear ...

The lives of nearly 2 billion people in South Asia are at risk as snow and glacier melt across the Himalayas accelerates, aggravated by black carbon pollution from burning biomass and fossil fuels ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden force behind the rapid melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—powerful wind jets known as low-level jets. These fast-moving winds, intensified by polar ...