“But our analyses proved the contrary; there’s a remarkable amount of microbial biodiversity and biogeography across the world’s glacier-fed streams.” The data from this work was used to create a ...

In 2008, conservationists began spreading textile sheets over the glacier each summer to prevent melt. The photo shows a worker unhooking sheets during autumn before the first snow. The effort may ...

The findings show the world’s tropical regions have already warmed past limits last seen at the outset of the Holocene age. Scientists have predicted glaciers would melt, or retreat, as temperatures ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

United Nations agencies launched an appeal to scale up efforts to rescue the world’s 275,000 glaciers, which are rapidly melting away as the planet warms. The UN’s educational, scientific and ...

Scientists say the cryosphere—combinations of glaciers, ice, snow and permafrost—is melting faster than any recorded history, which is already contributing to altering the world’s water system. To ...