The contribution of glaciers and ice caps to global sea-level rise is uncertain: they are incompletely counted and the calculation is challenging. A new estimate from the best available data ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Greenland's ice cap is melting at a rate 20% faster than previous estimates, contributing significantly to global sea level rise and altering climate systems.

Greenland's Melting Ice Caps Reveal The True Extent Of Climate Change This rapid icecap reduction not only has consequences for Greenlands 56,000 inhabitants, but also on a global scale, as it ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those ...

In recent decades this territory – 80% of which is covered with ice – has recorded a loss of frozen mass that outpaced previous estimates by 20%.This rapid reduction not only has consequences ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

The heat was so expansive that mountaintops, including the French Alps, that are usually frozen from snowpack saw record ...

Global warming and climate change are environmental issues. Human activities cause these problems. Burning fossil fuels and ...

The glacier finch is the only bird in the world that nests at such high altitudes. Sadly, climate change is threatening to ...

The Quelccaya Ice Cap is a significant nesting ground for glacier finches, but its melting also has another adverse effect. As the glacier melts, water runoff impacts the wetlands at its base .

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers: Holes ...