Within Sweden's borders, there are 269 glaciers, some extending over the border with Norway, covering an area of ​​approx. 250 km2.

Glaciers are made of densely packed snow that's fallen in the same place over years and years. Each fresh fall of snow adds to the weight, crushing the layers of snow below, turning it into ice.

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

Melting Glaciers Are a Major Contributor to Rising Seas Melting glaciers are like a slowly dripping faucet, steadily adding to the global sea levels. In fact, they are a major contributor, responsible ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a ...

We put on crampons and then we make a single step from rocks and onto the ice of the glacier. The first thing that strikes you is that the ice is not the pristine white that you'd expect.

Sunday’s disaster occurred in the western part of the Himalayas. Glaciers are made of layers of compressed snow that move or “flow” due to gravity and the softness of ice relative to rock.

Global temperatures are rapidly rising, which are warming oceans and melting glaciers. Scientists have long explained that mountaintops are often affected by the warming climate faster than other ...