SMU research reveals glaciers erode mountains faster than previously thought, with implications for climate change models and ...

A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets ...

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind moves over the ice in long, deliberate strokes, shaping a landscape caught ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

The retreat of the Zachariae Isstrom glacier in the northeast of the country formed 81 kilometres of new coastline - more than twice as much as any other glacier in the study. Melting glaciers ...

Today, most of the remaining water on the surface is largely confined to its polar regions in the form of ice caps, permafrost, and subsurface glaciers. Nevertheless, the seasonal melting and ...

By releasing large amounts of water, the melting of glaciers can trigger natural disasters such as floods, landslides and avalanches. The lakes that form risk overflowing, threatening towns and ...

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

By releasing large amounts of water, the melting of glaciers can trigger natural disasters such as floods, landslides and avalanches. The lakes that form risk overflowing, threatening towns and ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in the western Himalayas. They found that most of these glaciers contain ...