glaciers
New research suggests that maritime glaciers in the far northwest might survive, but more than two-thirds of Canada’s existing glaciers in British Columbia and Alberta could be lost altogether by 2100.
Garry Clarke, a glaciologist at the University of British Columbia in...
A recent incident shows the importance of a social movement in shaping a glacier protection law in Chile. Representatives from indigenous and environmental groups testified in April that the ...
Nearly all of Austria's 900 glaciers retreated last year amid record-setting heat, according to Austrian scientists. The rapid melting mirrors a trend across the Alps and underscores scientists' warnings of...
If climate change continues as it has been and warming trend predictions are correct, the massive icefield that feeds Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier - the Juneau Icefield - might be gone by 2200. The findings were published in a recent study by researchers from the University of Alaska...
Glaciers made an unusual appearance on a primetime American television network last month: the television series Madam Secretary aired an episode...
Glaciers made an unusual appearance on a primetime American television network last month: the television series Madam Secretary aired an episode...
Have you ever visited a structure that changes every time you go to see it?
Last year, when I spent about a month in Ladakh, I had the fortune of seeing the pilot “Ice Stupa” in all of its ever changing glory. Built to combat the...
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) released the first two reports of a new series on regional mountain-based adaptation in order to encourage urgent action to protect mountain ecosystems from the impacts of climate...
Glaciologists in China and elsewhere have said for years that climate change is the main cause of glacier erosion, which threatens the water sources of much of humanity.
Officials in the far northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang now say another factor is putting the fragile...
The «wgms Glacier App» provides scientific information and photographs of more than 3,700 glaciers. The app of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, hosted at the University of Zurich, provides public access to glacier observations from around the world. It shows how many glaciers are...
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