When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.
Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, with both the annual amount of ice lost and the four-year average reaching ...
Thousands of glaciers in the Canadian West could shrink by 70 percent over the next century, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. Take a look at the before and after photos of the ...
A study published today in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12 percent of their ice between 2021 and 2024. A 2021 ...
Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...
Glaciers around the world are vanishing faster than ever before. Last year, all 58 global reference glaciers across five continents tracked by the American Meteorological Society lost mass for the ...
An Antarctic glacier retreated faster than any other in modern history, reveals new research. Half of the glacier - five miles of ice - disintegrated in just two months, say scientists. A new study, ...
Nevada’s last glacier is real. It exists. Driving across Nevada over Labor Day weekend, I feared it would already be gone. The writer or journalist or recordkeeper has this fear: that if we don’t ...