For the people of the Venezuelan state of Mérida, the glaciated peaks of its Sierra Nevada have been a source of pride since time immemorial: The mountains are part of the regional identity and the ...

Mount Rainier has lost glaciers due to the warming climate. Glacier melt threatens rivers, salmon habitats and hydropower across Washington state. South-facing glaciers without high-elevation ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world's ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Miriam Jackson, the Eurasia and Nordic director of the International ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Global Annual Mass Change since 1950 UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation on January 21st.

Glaciers around the world are vanishing faster than ever before. Last year, all 58 global reference glaciers across five continents tracked by the American Meteorological Society lost mass for the ...

Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, with both the annual amount of ice lost and the four-year average reaching ...

Glaciers are awe-inspiring geological formations that have defined landscapes all over the world, including Colorado. A glacier is formed when snow accumulates for many years until thick ice is formed ...

PUTNEY — Join Landmark College chemistry students on Saturday, April 26, from 11 to 1 p.m. in the Putney Library's youth department for a fun drop-in science activity about glaciers. This program is ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world’s ...