If current trends hold, Chinese scientists believe that 40 percent of the plateau's glaciers could disappear by 2050. "Full-scale glacier shrinkage is inevitable," says Yao Tandong, a glaciologist ...

Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing as greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. In the ...

Worried by Plateau State’s ranking as the second-highest in open defecation practices in Nigeria, Governor Caleb Mutfwang has expressed his administration’s determination to tackle the menace by ...

UNESCO report reveals alarming glacial mass loss worldwide, urging global action to protect key water sources and prevent disasters.

The ice lost from glaciers since 1975 is roughly equivalent to an ice block the size of Germany. Read more at ...

From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their ...

The United Nations' new report highlights that the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers has increased the vulnerability of ...

A UNESCO report reveals that glaciers worldwide are melting at an unprecedented rate, losing 9,000 gigatons of ice since 1975 ...

The Himalayas are on the verge of losing 80% of their glaciers by the end of this century. This may affect the monsoons, water patterns, agriculture, and the life of communities. A sustainable ...

About 1.1 billion people live in mountain communities, which suffer the most immediate impacts of glacier loss, due to the increasing risks with natural hazards and unreliable water sources.