The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

Researchers say melting glaciers and permafrost can trigger the production of toxic mercury in mountain wetlands, posing ...

Scientists warn that rebuilding melting glaciers could take hundreds or even thousands of years. A temperature increase of ...

"Fascinating." Scientists make jaw-dropping observation while studying glaciers in Antarctica: 'Ice piracy' first appeared on ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate ...

ASTANA – Downstream countries in Central Asia could face growing water shortages as intensive agricultural practices, climate ...

Even if global temperatures eventually return to the 1.5°C target, glaciers worldwide will suffer irreversible loss.

Glaciers are disappearing as a result of global warming. In the Alps, for example, there are now only half as many as there ...

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries -- even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5 C limit, having exceeded it.

A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...