In 2024, the warmest year on record in Europe according to the EU's Copernicus system, Swedish and Norwegian glaciers melted ...

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

Despite scientific consensus, President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as a “Chinese hoax,” a claim that ...

Glaciers are large masses of ice, formed in colder regions, usually in mountains, where the accumulating winter snow does not completely melt away during summer. Over many years, snow builds up ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

Image courtesy of Project Pressure. “The pure basics of glaciers is that it has to be cold,” says Thymann. “As the melting point rises, they simply vanish and that’s what’s happening in ...

This rate has surged by 36% recently, meaning glaciers are now melting faster than the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets combined. This isn't just an environmental crisis – it's a direct threat ...

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Glaciers in Sweden and Norway have been melting at an increasingly rapid pace, driven by the ongoing warming of the planet due to climate change. In 2024, which was officially recorded by the EU's ...