Among the key issues examined are air pollution and the melting of glaciers. Warming-caused glacier retreat is a source of “water scarcity, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power generation and ...

Glaciers like these provide drinking water to communities during their dry seasons. As they melt, this water supply dwindles and lost ice causes seas to rise. In 1971, researchers made a ...

“The rainfall pattern is changing. The snowfall pattern is changing and then the melting of the glacier is changing. So it’s changing the dynamics of hazards.” Pakistan is among the world ...

Credit: Getty Images Archaeologists have been left stumped by a mysterious item revealed by a melting glacier in a popular Swiss hiking area. A hiker spotted the large, wheeled contraption earlier ...

Komal’s morning view was of jagged, forbidding mountains, the rush of the river dozens of metres below the family home on the cliff. That was until the water became a torrent and tore the ground away ...

Glaciers that are within three miles of a volcano move nearly 50% quicker than average, a new study has found, which could help create early warning of future eruptions. Glaciers that are within ...

A newly published study has mapped glacial debris across the Greater Caucasus, the mountainous region between the Black and ...

With the fate of the Thwaites still uncertain, some scientists and engineers are turning to controversial ideas on how to alter the environment to slow glacier melt. The Thwaites Glacier is one of ...

At current emissions levels, almost all small and low-latitude mountain glaciers would be wiped out by 2100. Asia has suffered record ice loss this year. On August 16 walls of ice around two melt ...