In Alaska’s capital, a retreating glacier has turned from postcard backdrop into a recurring threat, sending sudden torrents ...

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage ...

The connection identified by the researchers is alarming for several reasons. 'Concerning' new study makes alarming discovery about glaciers: 'We have to act fast' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined the impact of rising global temperatures on glacier temperature decoupling. Put simply, glacier temperature decoupling is when the ...

Ice in the Arctic and Antarctica plays a critical role in maintaining life on Earth, and it is melting faster than previously thought. This is threatening our planet with potentially massive sea-level ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Experts predict that melting glaciers will increase the number of people killed by extreme floods. Glacial ...