Mass loss of ice from the world’s 19 glacier regions was 450bn tonnes in 2024, says a new report from the UN’s World ...

Five of the past six years have witnessed the most rapid glacier retreat on record, according to new research by the World ...

"The preservation of glaciers is not only an environmental, economic, and social necessity. It is a matter of survival," said ...

This is triggering an “avalanche of cascading impacts”, the UN agency warns, from flooding to water scarcity and sea-level ...

Vast mountain glacial flows created in the ice age in the US, Canada, Scandinavia ... The water from melting glaciers is finding its way into the world's oceans to become the second biggest ...

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

Scientists have been studying and modeling this process for years, but until now, no research group has specifically examined how glacier melt will affect glacier-fed streams and their ecosystems.

Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, a UN report warns.