The low part of the glacier is quite rocky and dirty/muddy. Apparently a lot of the dark streaks are dirt, but some of it is volcanic ash. The farther you get up into the ice, the more pure it ...

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable.

the Glacier Graveyard in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fifteen gravestones, sculpted from ice, stood on a patch of land in Reykjavik, a temporary monument to glaciers that are disappearing before our eyes.

Unfortunately, NASA satellite imagery recently captured 40 years of regression in the Alps’ largest chunk of ice, the Great Aletsch Glacier. The images—seen below, and taken in 1984 and 2024 ...

Two satellite photos taken 33 years apart show the disappearance of a glacier in Iceland that was the first ice mass to be declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. Okjökull was a ...

On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute.