This is a corrie - an armchair shaped hollow found high on mountains where glaciers form. Layers of snow compact into ice and start moving down the mountain. As the ice moves, it plucks rock from ...

Glacial melting can result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, agriculture and water resources being put at risk, and coastal ...

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

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...

As the glaciers formed over the landscape, they pulverized the ground beneath them. Then, “when the ice eventually thawed, the ground-up minerals washed into the oceans where they may have ...

By releasing large amounts of water, the melting of glaciers can trigger natural disasters such as floods, landslides and avalanches. The lakes that form risk overflowing, threatening towns and ...