Heat, scarce snow melting away Slovenia’s Alpine glaciers. One is still standing

In Slovenia, meltwater from glaciers and the snow normally feeds major rivers, including the Drava in Croatia and the Mura, ...

The endurance of Earth’s hidden alpine glaciers

As the world’s mountain ice melts, scientists look to the poorly understood rock glaciers to provide temporary reprieve for people and ecosystems ...
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An Alpine Nation Clings to Its Lone Remaining Glacier

Faced with rising temperatures and declining winter snow, the Alpine nation has seen one of its two glaciers melt away, and ...

Students covered an Alpine glacier in sheep’s wool: 3 months later, they slashed melting by over 50%

Researchers came up with an idea to employ an underused resource to replace the current contaminating material used to slow glacier melt.
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Swiss Glaciers Lose Nearly 20% of Their Ice Volume in Five Years

Low winter snowfall and repeated summer heatwaves caused substantial glacier mass loss across Switzerland in 2026. Swiss ...

Swiss Glaciers Vanished by Nearly a Fifth in Recent Years, Scientists Say

One researcher called it a “desperately needed warning sign” that countries need to tackle human-driven climate change.
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New Fungal Genus Cryptocalciella Discovered in Alpine Glaciers

Researchers have identified a previously unknown genus of fungi, named Cryptocalciella, thriving in the harsh, nutrient-poor environments of Alpine glacier forefields. This discovery, published in the ...

300 glaciers have disappeared from the American West since the mid-20th century – the survivors have a few things in common

From an airplane, most of the glaciers of the Rocky Mountain West look like small patches of white nestled into rugged ...
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Four students wrapped part of an alpine glacier in sheep’s wool in June. By September, the ice under it had lost half as much

The blankets work. The people who laid them are the first to say that covering a glacier is not a way to save one. Switzerland produces a lot of wool it does not use. Between 40 and 70 percent of the ...
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Africa’s disappearing glaciers are taking climate records with them

More than 90% of the continent’s historically measured glacier area is gone. Scientists are racing to preserve the climate ...
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Alpine Glacier Sees a 130-Year First

Italy's Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this ...