Small landslides are on the increase in the Swiss Alps owing to climate change. But the link with global warming is less ...

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

Across Antarctica, Greenland, and other polar areas, icy glaciers cover large areas of land and extend into the sea. These glaciers shrink and grow with the seasons. Jonathan Bamber of the University ...

In the Himalayas, melting glaciers are forming unstable lakes that can burst like silent tsunamis—putting millions at risk of ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

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 ...

The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial temperature—the Paris ...

PARIS: Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if ...

In a nutshell Even if global temperatures eventually return to the 1.5°C target, glaciers worldwide will suffer irreversible ...

Scientists warn that climate change is the main cause of the loss of mass in South America’s most famous glacier ...

With a rumbling wave up to a third of a mile high, thundering across the ocean at hundreds of miles per hour, the sheer ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...