Tom J. Battin is a professor of environmental sciences at the Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Centre, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Nearly half of ...

Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see their progress with the naked eye. (Their pace is … glacial.

Today marks the first ever World Glaciers Day, an occasion which the UN is using to spotlight these icy landscapes which are fast disappearing. Glaciers are now 9,000 billion tonnes lighter than ...

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shaun Eaves receives funding from the Antarctic Science Platform and previously from the Marsden Fund.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Friday marks the first-ever World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations ...

Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising hundreds of millions of people living downstream, UN climate experts said ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...

As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—covered an area of 705,221 km² and held approximately 121,728 billion tons of ice worldwide. Since then, ...

Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing as greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. In the ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's ...

EL CALAFATE, Argentina (AP) — A creak, a thunderous roar, and then the plunge: Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier calves several times a day, as hundreds of visitors strain to see which side it ...

(Reuters) - Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on ...