As global warming accelerates the melting of Himalayan glaciers and increases risks, the expert committee’s decision to ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ...

Regional pollution is speeding up snow melt in the Indian Himalayas. That's according to a new study from an international ...

As global warming accelerates, the increasing number of supraglacial lakes and the need to accurately measure their depths ...

The Isle of Skye in north-west Scotland is an island full of character, rugged mountains, towering cliffs and sleepy hamlets.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...

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