This global initiative highlights the critical role of glaciers in providing freshwater to billions of people worldwide, while emphasizing the urgent threat posed by climate change to their very ...

The glaciers cover an area of approx. 250 km2. The number changes over time as the glaciers adapt to the prevailing climate and climate changes. A thinning glacier may split into several small ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss.

As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Glaciers and ice sheets hold around ...

including glacier lake outburst floods, avalanches, ice falls, landslides, and debris flows. These manifestations arise from diverse geomorphological and glaciological characteristics resulting from ...

Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question. After a flood destroyed their town, Kentucky residents faced the ...

The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation — emphasizing the critical role glaciers play in sustaining life and the urgent need for their protection in a ...

Mountain Time on the first day of March, people across the world hovered over keyboards and smartphones, ticking away the ...

Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration ...

As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Co-facilitated by the UN Educational ...

Svalbard experiences frequent climate extremes due to its unique location in the Arctic yet close to the warm Atlantic water. Our findings indicate that marine-terminating glaciers are highly ...