The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

Students learned about the science behind the annual flood and what’s being done to protect their school and neighborhoods.

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now ...

Soak up breath-taking views across a vanishing Canadian glacier at a dramatic skywalk location that rivals the jutting precipice at Grand Canyon West.

Like an ice cube on a hot summer day, many of Earth's glaciers are shrinking. Last January, a study in Nature Climate Change showed the world's glaciers are the smallest they've been in human ...

UNESCO report highlights record glacial mass loss since 1975 Glacial melt accelerates sea level rise, risking floods and water shortages Indigenous African community faces spiritual and practical ...

All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United Nations said Friday, warning that saving the planet's glaciers was now a ...

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 ...

Glaciers worldwide have shrunk by more than 5 per cent on average since 2000, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet. This rapid rate of melting has accelerated by more than a third in ...

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks in the surface of glaciers formed by extensive stress within the ice. Water from melting snow on the surface can flow through crevasses to the ...

in North Sikkim which led to 55 fatalities and infrastructure loss in Teesta River valley. GLOF is breaching of glacial lake boundaries leading to release of huge water to nearby streams and rivers.