Widespread water insecurity is the result of decades of overuse, as well as shrinking supplies from lakes, rivers, glaciers and wetlands, the researchers found.

Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, ...

Nearly three-quarters of the global population live in countries classified as "water insecure" or "critically water insecure", and 4 billion people face severe water scarcity at least one month per y ...

Five Central Asian nations once bickered over the water from regional glaciers. Now, with climate change looming, they appear ...

Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.

A new flagship UN report warns that the world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy,” where decades of overuse, ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

Hiking will always be a part of life in the Alps, but climate change has made navigating high-alpine routes more complicated ...

Greenland's ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US government scientists said Tuesday in one of a series of "unmistakable" signs of climate change. (PhysOrg.com) -- The ...