Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"For the first time, we are able to see significant increases in the size and depth of crevasses at fast-flowing glaciers at ...

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 ...

Bedrock recently exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to ... the largest tropical ice mass in the world, found rooted ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a ...

You can find a lot of interesting things if you start digging around ... not least of which is the fact that as ancient glaciers around the world melt (often with the help of a warming planet ...

The researchers suggested that this is due to their relative geographical isolation, and the natural selection that is already a powerful force in extreme regions like streams that are fed by melting ...

Glaciers and ice sheets store about 70 percent of the global freshwater. Scientists say the cryosphere—combinations of glaciers, ice, snow and permafrost—is melting faster than ... and small insects ...

"The melting glacier is a message to each and every village in the Himalayan region that they will have to move to a better water source one day." Rural communities across the region of Ladakh are ...

Dawn Brennan inspects the bark of a tree covered in several different lichens during a Lichen in the Winter World walk held by the Glacier Institute ... Daily Inter Lake) Found on every continent ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 1.5 metres melting twice as fast on ...