The worlds of international diplomacy, environmental urgency, and high-art preservation converged this week, spotlighting ...

A nature filmmaker's footage of a hike in the Canadian Rockies has gone viral for highlighting what appears to be the effects of climate change on glaciers there. But the scene quickly shifts and the ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. In ...

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. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS ...

Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by more than 10 percent in just two years, according to new data, marking a significant acceleration in ice loss due to climate change. Experts at the Swiss Academy ...

Researchers present a global assessment of ice loss since the beginning of the millennium. In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest. International ...

The Chief Shakes Glacier, along the Stikine River. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.