Patagonia’s glaciers have been shrinking faster than ever over the past two decades, and the reasons go far beyond simple warming. New research shows a deeper, long-term shift in the atmosphere is to ...

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 melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

This summer, the vast Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica had so much meltwater running down its face, it looked like it was weeping. Dr Yixi Zheng, a climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...

For centuries, glaciers have been more than just frozen landscapes, they are nature’s archives, recording past climates, feeding rivers, and sustaining communities. Today, for the first time in modern ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the Thwaites Glacier is melting fast and threatens to raise global sea levels.

Scientists warn that allowing access to deposits near vital ice reserves threatens food production sustaining 400 million ...