In a major show of regional cooperation, Central Asia’s five countries recently agreed to a new water-sharing framework for the Syr Darya and Amu Darya, glacier-fed rivers essential to agriculture, ...

The way our warming world is headed, melting mountain glaciers won't recover for centuries, even if we are able to cool off the planet. A new study warns that once the planet overshoots a critical ...

These images, snapped by NASA’s Jeremy Harbeck, show some of the highlights from that flight, featuring plenty of interesting glaciers, landforms, and even some wildlife. It is no secret that many ...

Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States Due to their high sensitivity to changes in climate, glaciers are one of the best natural indicators of climate change.

Weather experts have warned of an increase in Glacier-related risks from climate change. Glacier-related risks are becoming a global reality, says Celeste Saulo, head of the World Meteorological ...

The collapse of a Swiss glacier last week destroyed most of Blatten, a tiny village in Switzerland's southern Valais region that was home to about 300 people. Footage of the May 28 collapse showed ...

The collapse of the Birch glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. Authorities and scientists had been monitoring the area closely and when the first signs of instability started to ...

Learn more about what this means for users and how you can share your story here: Level of Service Update for Data Products. The Glacier Photograph Collection is a database of digital photographs of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Rock glaciers are debris landforms found in many mountain ranges on Earth. They represent the movement of permanently frozen ground over long periods of time and can be used to understand how ...