The melting of glaciers, a direct effect of global warming, is accelerating and bringing serious consequences for people and ...

Accelerating glacier melt could trigger an avalanche of cascading impacts on economies, ecosystems and communities.

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

According to Union minister of state for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary, India has 9,575 glaciers, small and big, with the ...

The lack of potable public water supply gave rise to sachet water popularly known as ‘pure water’. The sachet water and its ...

Back at Bow Lake, a longer hike unveils yet another cirque characteristic, the Bow Glacier Falls, a cascade formed from the Wapta Icefield melt water high above. Bow River in Banff. Photography ...

How would you like to live where there is always snow and ice? Some of the coldest parts of the world have glaciers. Glaciers are sheets of ice formed by snow falling on them more than melting. Over ...

This is where a glacier, a massive river of flowing ice, forms. Glaciers form the corrie when more and more snow piles up. The snow gets squashed under its own weight and is compacted into hard ice.

A creak, a thunderous roar, and then the plunge: Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier calves several times a day, as hundreds of ...

In response to the UN declaration of 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Research (2025–2034), an international team of glacier scientists ...

Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in ...