A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine ...

Glacial troughs in Antarctica promote mixing of warm and cold water, affecting global climate. A new study explores whether ...

A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in Churchill, Canada, ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

To get underwater images like this one of a polar bear moving from melting sea ice onto dry ... appears in the September 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - National Geographic ... ice is vital for transportation, for food, and for living. Half a million Indigenous people call this frosty land home, but they’re not alone. The ...

Melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is putting incredible pressure on animals like polar bears, penguins ... Fails To Secure Even 12 Seats, Loses 'National Party' Status Scientists studied ...

On another dive, he witnessed a sublime underwater snowfall, which occurred when snow fell through the hole in the ice and was unable to melt in the ... a sea anemone that bears a stunning ...

as glaciers in the Alps melt ... from bears and wolves. Such traces of long-gone settlements are scattered across the Alps. Around 6,000 years ago, much of the eastern Alps were ice-free.