As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—covered an area of 705,221 km² and held approximately 121,728 billion tons of ice worldwide. Since then, ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients ... that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball ...

Mysterious and fascinating artifacts are surfacing on melting glaciers across the planet. From ancient human remains to strange wooden tools and statues, these objects are drawing archaeologists into ...

To make the animation, I downloaded the geographic information system data for the glaciers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The data is extremely detailed, coming in at a huge 14GB.

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.

A groundbreaking study reveals the world’s glaciers are melting at a record pace, losing trillions of tons of ice and significantly accelerating the climate crisis Climate change is accelerating the ...

Over the last two decades, glaciers worldwide have lost around 5% of their total volume, with the pace of melting accelerating sharply in the past decade. Research led by 35 teams using satellite data ...

Western Canada’s glacier melt is accelerating at an alarming rate because of human-caused climate change, according to a global study co-authored by one of B.C.’s top glaciologists.

Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world's ...

It is located where the study measured the greatest glacier ice decrease on the planet in central Europe. The glacier was once easily visible from Chamonix but has been shrinking backward ...