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

Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to ...

The world’s glaciers continue to vanish at an alarming rate, with five of the past six years witnessing the most rapid ...

WMO and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) reported on Friday that many regions’ so-called “eternal ice” will not ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

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 ...

All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United ...

These risks and the loss of freshwater supplies are some of the reasons the United Nations declared 2025 the International ...

The IAEA event, Cryosphere: The impact of retreating glaciers, will take place on 6 December at 11:00 (GMT +4). The panel discussion will focus on the high-risk areas of cryosphere melting and glacier ...

For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in ...

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...