
Key World Heritage sites will lose their glaciers by 2050
One-third of World Heritage sites possessing glaciers will lose their ice by mid-century, according to a U.N. Educational,...

Switzerland loses more of its glaciers than ever before
A new study by the Swiss Academy of Sciences has revealed that Switzerland has lost up to 6% of its glaciers this...

Critical Antarctic ice shelf breaking away at an alarming rate
A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that the Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf is breaking...

Snøhetta completes stunning Norwegian cabins for glacier hikers
The breathtaking landscape of Luster in the western part of Norway has recently been joined by Tungestølen, a...

Mountain in Sweden loses highest peak title as global warming shrinks it
Kebnekaise, the highest mountain peak in Sweden, has fallen victim to global heating. Scientists reported that...

Iceland will unveil monument for the first glacier lost to climate change
Scientists and local Icelanders will unveil a monument next month that memorializes the first glacier out of the...

Earliest human air pollution detected in glaciers
Researchers in Peru have discovered some of the earliest evidence of air pollution, and their report reveals new...

Previously stable zones of Antarctica are now falling victim to climate change
Unlike its counterpart, West Antarctica, which has long been decimated by melting ice caps, East Antarctica used...

West Antarctica's bedrock is rising, providing some protection to melting ice
It seems that most news concerning Antarctica's ice sheets is bad news, with two of the world's fastest melting...

Climate change has transformed much of Alaska over the past three decades
Climate change disproportionately impacts the Arctic, where rising global temperatures wrought by the burning of...

Scientists uncover giant canyons under the ice in Antarctica
Researchers have discovered three large canyons frozen beneath the ice of Antarctica, each of which is hundreds...

6 ways that scientists are hacking the planet
Life on planet Earth is struggling through an historically challenging era, thanks in no small part to the actions...

The largest fire in Greenland's history warns of an extreme future
The largest wildfire in Greenland's history burned bright last summer, a potential warning sign for a future rattled...

The world's biggest Arctic lake isn't as resistant to climate change as scientists thought
Scientists used to think Lake Hazen, located around 560 miles away from the North Pole in Canada, was beyond the...

The melting Arctic is already changing the ocean's circulation
In the far North Atlantic, scientists have uncovered new evidence that an unusual infusion of freshwater into the...