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 ...

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 ...

According to Swiss glaciologist David Wolken, the method may be reducing the melting by up to 70%. Take a look at how the amount of ice on the Rhone Glacier has changed since 2008.

Venezuela has officially lost all of its glaciers. Humboldt Glacier, the country’s last remaining glacier, was once a symbol ...

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 ...

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions globally. The accelerated loss of glaciers, particularly in regions like ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

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 ...