A decade of NASA airborne radar surveys produces the most extensive inventory of glacier ice thickness for Alaska and ...

Hidden rock glaciers in Wyoming are resisting climate warming and could help sustain cold mountain streams for decades to ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, often called the Doomsday Glacier, is retreating faster than many models anticipated, and with it goes a critical buttress holding back several meters of potential sea ...

A global group of scientists, engineers and policy experts has unveiled an ambitious plan to build a wall along the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ as flooding fears continue to grow. Located on the West Antarctic ...

In November 2025, a study led by Adrien Wehrlé, a researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Zürich, ...

The three largest glaciers in Greenland — which hold enough frozen water to lift global sea levels some 1.3 metres — could melt faster than even the worst-case warming predictions, research published ...

Glaciers around the world are shrinking at a pace scientists say will continue for decades. Public attention often focuses on rising seas and water shortages. Another part of the story has received ...

The Greenland ice sheet (Sermersuaq) is a large body of ice that covers some 1,710,000 square kilometers (660,000 square miles), and accounts for some 80 percent of the surface of the country.

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers have lost more than half their total volume since the early 1930s, a new study has found, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of ...

GENEVA – Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee ...