The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems.

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

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday.

Glaciers worldwide have shrunk by more than 5 per cent on average since 2000, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet.

"Glacier velocity could be a valuable new technique for monitoring volcanic activity," researcher Joseph Mallalieu said.

Despite 30 percent more snowfall last winter, Swiss glaciers couldn't avoid the effects of record summer heat and Saharan dust.

Melting glaciers changed the topography of a roughly 330-foot-long segment of the border between Italy and Switzerland.

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Science Tropical Glaciers in the Andes Are the Smallest They’ve Been in 11,700 Years Four different glaciers along the Andes range no longer have hospitable conditions.

Norway's photogenic "Dragon's Eye" likely formed around 20,000 years ago, when all of Scandinavia sat beneath an enormous mass of ice called the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet.

Glacier melt in a major Alaskan icefield has accelerated and could reach an irreversible tipping point earlier than previously thought.

Peru has lost 56% of its tropical glaciers in the last six decades due to climate change, according to a new government inventory released on Wednesday.