China is staring at a water crisis in the mid-to-long term after the latest climate data showed a rapidly depleting glacial ...

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice blocks from Africa's ...

Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, UN climate experts said on March 21. March 21 marked the first-ever World Glacier Day, established ...

To raise awareness and promote action to preserve glaciers, the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). For the first time, March ...

China's glacier area has shrunk by 26 per cent since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data ...

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on March 21.

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming. Official data reveals that 7,000 small glaciers have disappeared completely and glacial retreat intensified in recent ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023. These and other icy regions have ...

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, ...

Most glacial lakes began forming over a century ago as a result of warming trends since the 1860s, but their abundance and rates of growth have risen rapidly since the 1960s. Many people living in the ...