Melting glaciers due to global warming are contributing to rising sea levels and extreme climate in different parts of the world. Now, the situation of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica ...

Perched on a narrow ridge beneath the mountain’s iconic hanging glacier [the ‘Dablam’], it offers breathtaking views but poses challenges such as limited space, extreme weather, and ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

CONNOR: It’s flown up to the Cairngorm Plateau. Hanging valleys are created where smaller valleys meet the main glaciated valley. The glaciers in the smaller valleys were not so powerful ...