One of the most unusual sights in the world is a glacier. Glaciers are found in mountain locations and in the coldest regions on earth. They are often a surprising and beautiful blue color. But snow ...

NASA's Landsats captured views of a Swiss glacier 40 years apart, showing how a warming world has reduced its footprint.

Glaciers are sheets of ice formed by snow falling on them more than melting. Over the years, the snow gets packed into ice, and they start to look a shade of blue (read more in Why Glaciers Are Blue?) ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. And it is causing global sea levels to rise at ever-greater rates. Since the year 2000, ...

An international team of scientists says Earth's glaciers are vanishing so fast they now release 273 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean each year. While the world's glaciers have lost five per ...

which is another reason why the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are shrinking the most." Declining meltwater supply in Alpine streams Valuable freshwater supplies are being lost with the ice ...