Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the landscape, with potentially hazardous impacts.

With glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate, 2025 has been named the Year of International Glacier Preservation. Here's ...

Students often travel as much as 8 to 10 miles a day, carrying packs a third of ... was dragged here by a glacier thousands of years ago. The friction between ice and bedrock smoothed the rock ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

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 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly ... director of the Switzerland-based World Glacier Monitoring Service, said during a press conference announcing the report ...

Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the rapid retreat of glaciers worldwide.

During extremely warm years, the winter snow pack is almost ... The science of glacier loss is clear: in a warming world, less snow will be retained and more ice will melt. This is why the United ...