Zanskar, located in the Ladakh region of India's mountain highlands, has felt the full force of glacier retreat. With no ...

When the melting of ice causes a glacier to retreat, the cavernous hole left behind fills with water. The rocky material piled at the terminus of the glacier often serves as a natural dam for ...

As Glaciers Retreat, New Streams Offer Homes for Salmon After the waterways form, insects move in, alders and willows spring up, and spawning fish arrive in thousands ...

The mountains of Western Canada are one of the hotspots for warming and the magnitude of change in glaciers is dramatic, researchers say.

Glaciers in Western Canada retreat because of climate change: experts As the Earth warms at a faster rate than it did, a combination of less snow and a rapid melt is causing glaciers to recede in ...

A climate scientist has been visiting the same glacier in Peru for years and explains the complex effects its rapid melting is having.

Monday Dec. 10 is International Mountain Day, where we appreciate the majesty of towering peaks. Now, you can explore the Canadian Rocky Mountains through time thanks to a project that shows how ...

WIND RIVER RANGE, Wyo. — Here at the roof of the Continental Divide, one of the Rocky Mountains' largest glaciers is in retreat, and a new world is emerging ...

WIND RIVER RANGE, Wyo. — Here at the roof of the Continental Divide, one of the Rocky Mountains' largest glaciers is in retreat. A new world is emerging in the wake of the receding ice. In a ...

“So the glaciers have paused in active retreat,” said Dan Fagre, a research ecologist with the USGS’ Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman who is stationed at Glacier.

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Nov 2013), pp. 463-472 (10 pages) Glacier tourism, a multimillion-dollar industry in New Zealand, is potentially under threat by ongoing glacial ...