The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest peaks, located in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland, is eroding as a result of melting glacier water at the summit. In the 88 years between ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

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 ...

Mass loss of ice from the world’s 19 glacier regions was 450bn tonnes in 2024, says a new report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Glaciers are melting rapidly because of ...

If the ice sheet covering Greenland was to melt completely ... Helheim — named after the “realm of the dead” in Norse mythology — is retreating rapidly. For years the glacier moved ...

“But after the glaciers (melt) not everything is lost,” Bosson said in an interview. “We especially need to protect the nature that will follow the glaciers: we need to protect the forests ...

As momentum builds for technical interventions to slow, halt and even reverse glacier melting, we argue that ... Serious academic investigations must begin before these techniques are adopted ...

but warmer water flowing up from the deep ocean speeds up the rate of melting. The comparison images that follow show significant changes to glaciers that have occurred over times periods that ...