Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Water from the melting ice often drains ...

The dynamic balance between snow accumulation during winter and melting during summer determines whether a glacier expands or contracts. Due to global warming, glaciers around the world have been ...

A team led by Brazilian researchers carried out a 70-day expedition around Antarctica to understand the melting rate of glacial ice and to see how the region is reacting to global warming.

Glaciers are among the most visible indicators of climate change, and their rapid melting poses a severe threat to ecosystems, infrastructure, and communities worldwide. Recognizing this crisis ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt extent dropped to nearly zero or below average from February 1 to March 15 ...

As momentum builds for technical interventions to slow, halt and even reverse glacier melting, we argue that these must incorporate the complexity of the icy biome that they aim to preserve.

Have top stories from The Daily Pennsylvanian delivered to your inbox every day, Monday through Friday, when Penn classes are in session.

But due to the melting permafrost, the stations are shifting and tilting with doors no longer fitting their frames, and pools of water are rotting their wooden foundations. To tackle this problem ...

A New York jury has awarded $1.68 billion (€1.55 billion) in damages to 40 women who accused Oscar-nominated writer and director James Toback of sexual abuse and misconduct spanning more than ...