When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

NASA's Landsats captured views of a Swiss glacier 40 years apart, showing how a warming world has reduced its footprint.

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...

This ice cave was one stemming from the tongue of a glacier flowing from Mount Erebus, one of the most powerful volcanoes of ...

Researchers present a global assessment of ice loss since the beginning of the millennium. In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest. International ...

An international team of scientists says Earth's glaciers are vanishing so fast they now release 273 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean each year. While the world's glaciers have lost five per ...

Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's mountains. As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice loss has repercussions for climate and water cycles. This in turn has ...