A recent study reveals the alarming rate at which glaciers are disappearing worldwide, reinforcing the urgency of the UN's International Year of Glaciers' Preservation.

This extraordinary environment is created by the calving of a glacier: Within Disko Bay is the Ilulissat Icefjord, a massive field of ice that originates from Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few ...

Melting glaciers across the world are revealing objects previously hidden to science, with ‘glacial archaeology’ thriving in ...

Norway is at the forefront of this emerging field of research, called glacial archaeology. With about 4,500 artifacts ...

Perito Moreno Glacier, situated in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, is one of the most accessible glaciers in ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the ...

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

Between 2000 and 2011, glaciers were melting at a rate of about 231 billion tonnes of ice per year on average, the researchers found. This melt rate increased between 2012 and 2023 to 314 billion ...

The winter months have provided hikers with the rare chance to explore ice caves carved by melting ice on a glacier in eastern Switzerland.

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...