Glaciers

The Rhone Glacier and its glacial lake, formed by the melting of the glacier, above Gletsch, in the Swiss Alps in September 2024. Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said in February.

Opinion & Features

THE BROAD VIEW

Melting glaciers: the tip of the iceberg in the global water crisis

The fate of the world’s shrinking ice fields is tied to our progress with global water security and climate change

An illustration shows how a landscape the size of Belgium located in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica would appear if the thick ice sheet covering it were lifted away.

Lifestyle

Ancient landscape formed by rivers revealed deep under Antarctic ice

Antarctica has not always been a desolate land of ice and snow. Earth’s southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life.

Lifestyle

Pyrenees glaciers 'doomed', experts warn

[TOULOUSE] Glaciers nestled in the lofty crags of the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain could disappear within 30 years as temperatures rise, upending ecosystems while putting local econo...

Lifestyle

Hot summer fuels dangerous glacier melting in Central Asia

IT began with a low rumbling noise. Then the rivers of mud poured down the mountainside over the Tajik village of Barssem: the latest victim of shrinking glaciers that are an alarming portent of clima...

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