Glacier melting is having real-world effects, demonstrating how much damage climate change can do. "There's a tide gauge down at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal," said Bell. "And sea levels have just ...

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

Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University and Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder In mountain ranges around the world, ...