Scientists have uncovered that glaciers can temporarily cool the air around them, delaying some effects of global warming. This self-cooling, driven by katabatic winds, is nearing its peak and will ...

Already considered one of the biggest climate threats in the world, the melting of Thwaites glacier is much worse that we ...

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their fate. A major new international study led by ETH Zurich has, for the ...

As glaciers around the world continue to shrink and disappear, they are drawing more visitors than ever, not only for their beauty but for what they have come to represent in an era of climate change.

Mountains are a natural home to snow and ice, as the air temperature cools roughly 10 deg C every thousand meters (15 deg F every half mile) of elevation, so conditions are frequently ripe for ...

Toxic sulphurous gas, carrying the telltale reek of rotten eggs, wafted through vents in the steep walls of Iceland’s Viti crater, while carbon dioxide bubbled to the surface of the milky blue crater ...