Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow.

Glaciar Perito Moreno was once considered a rarity: one of Patagonia’s only stable glaciers. But scientists have found the glacier is now in sudden and probably irreversible retreat – and this ...

The Swiss glacier, which has lost 60 per cent of its volume since 1850, had its meltwater dyed pink by researchers so that ...

A glacier's flow depends on how microscopic defects move through the ice, according to new research that also yielded a new model for predicting how glaciers will flow, ultimately contributing to ...

The glacial flood risks that Juneau is now experiencing each summer are becoming a growing problem in communities around the world.

Patagonia’s glaciers have been shrinking faster than ever over the past two decades, and the reasons go far beyond simple ...

By analyzing light shining through the same kind of cable that brings the internet into homes, researchers have helped ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Most of the news regarding the Thwaites Glacier, a Florida-sized slab of ice that is melting and currently contributing about 4 percent of global sea level rise, is bad. But a bit of ...

The Mendenhall Glacier is about 12 miles (19 kilometers ... During last year’s flood, the flow rate in the rushing Mendenhall River was about half that of Niagara Falls, the researchers say. Hatch and ...

Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital city with no immediate reports of major damage, though officials warned ...

Detailed study of a Greenland glacier’s flow rate reveals the impact of environmental conditions. Even though ‘glacial’ is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has ...