To highlight just how much the ice has retreated, researchers pointed to the Rhone Glacier. Europe's largest glacier during the Ice Age, the Rhone Glacier lost nearly 1.5 meters in thickness during ...

A new tour from the Icelandic tour operator Arctic Adventures offers a way for visitors to get up close and personal with Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier. In the southeast corner of Iceland, ...

This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years. Paintings, photos and satellites reveal ...

The arctic island is the largest land ice contributor to rising sea levels. Greenland is known as the largest contributor to rising sea levels but a new study explores how the island's glaciers could ...

Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the largest in northern Lombardy, has receded so significantly due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it using methods employed for the past 130 ...

The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

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 glaciologists ...

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 ...