Scientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

Mountain guides are witnessing the impact of warming temperatures firsthand, as melting glaciers force them to adapt new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey staff check monitoring equipment in Suicide Basin in June 2025. By August, the basin had filled with ...

This video documents the rapid melting of an ice cave at Whistler Blackcomb and how quickly conditions are changing. It highlights visible ice loss and the emotional reality of witnessing climate ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Margit Schwikowski helicoptered up to Switzerland’s Corbassière ...

Scientists are taking an urgent trip to Mount Everest to explore why the ice of one of the mountain’s most iconic glaciers is so close to melting. If the researchers acquire the data they hope to they ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town. Subscribe to our ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder and Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan ...