Alaska’s glaciers are melting for significantly longer periods as summer temperatures rise, with new satellite radar data ...

Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have quantified a striking relationship between rising summer temperatures ...

Alaska's glaciers respond to climate change by melting for three additional weeks with every 1 degree Celsius increase in the ...

Warming and heat waves are extending Alaska’s glacier melt season, adding weeks of melting and accelerating ice loss, new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sweeping global study reveals that glaciers’ ability to stay cooler than the surrounding air is fading. (CREDIT: Thomas Shaw | ...

An ice core from the Weißseespitze Glacier collected in 2019 gave researchers a peek into the history of Earth’s wildfires, ...

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

From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

Glaciers are an essential source of freshwater for Central Asia. As temperatures in the region rise twice as fast as the global average, its glaciers are melting faster than ever. Ahead of the World ...

If you’ve ever looked at a world map and thought it was set in stone, think again. Glaciers around the globe are melting at an alarming rate, and it’s not just causing sea levels to rise—it’s actually ...

A shrinking Alpine glacier reveals a 2,000-year record of pollution, wildfire smoke, and volcanic fallout – much of it ...

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 ...