Before Factories, There Were Medieval Fires And Roman Mines. A Vanishing Glacier Preserved The Proof. In A Nutshell ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Glaciers around the world are shrinking at a pace scientists say will continue for decades. Public attention often focuses on rising seas and water shortages. Another part of the story has received ...

Alpine monitors are reporting that all but two of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated over the last two years and say this highlights the impact of climate change.

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss ...

Twila Moon is pictured during field work to study ice-ocean interaction at the LeConte Glacier, Alaska. Credit: Twila Moon/NSIDC Twila Moon is pictured during field work to study ice-ocean interaction ...

The Fund for Science and Technology, a new private foundation, granted Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...