melting glaciers, Tag

Five new Russian islands have emerged from the mass melting of glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic region. The islands were first spotted in 2016 by the Russian Navy via satellite imagery and were recently confirmed and mapped...

Close to 300 climbers and explorers have died trying to summit Mount Everest, and the bodies of those that remain on the mountain are starting to become exposed because of melting glaciers...

Asia’s Himalayan mountain range is about to undergo some major changes. New research predicts that global warming will melt at least one-third or up two two-thirds of the glaciers in the region by the year 2100, significantly...

The largest national park in America is one few have ever heard of, and even fewer have visited. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve encompasses 13.2 million acres of glaciers and forests in the southeast of Alaska....

The largest wildfire in Greenland's history burned bright last summer, a potential warning sign for a future rattled by catastrophic climate change. Scientists are concerned that Greenland's massive ice sheet may absorb...

In the far North Atlantic, scientists have uncovered new evidence that an unusual infusion of freshwater into the ocean may already be affecting the ocean's circulation...

You know how we've been freaking out about how quickly global warming is causing ice to melt and sea levels to rise? Turns out, we weren't panicking nearly enough...

NASA has developed a new tool that individuals and communities can use to determine the precise impacts that sea level rise will have on individual coastal cities...

NASA has developed a new tool that individuals and communities can use to determine the precise impacts that sea level rise will have on individual coastal cities...

As global temperatures increase due to global warming, ice caps and glaciers continue to melt at an increasing pace. While this reality disturbs some, it is being regarded as positive news by the National Advisor Bureau Limited,...

For the first time on record, climate change has completely changed the route of a river. In a shift that researchers called “geologically instantaneous," a river in Canada's Yukon territory shifted from draining into the...

1. The curious cold spot that has scientists thinking their worst fears have come true: It reads like something out of a bad action movie: while temperatures climb around the globe, a single, ominous cold spot in the middle...

1. The curious cold spot that has scientists thinking their worst fears have come true: It reads like something out of a bad action movie: while temperatures climb around the globe, a single, ominous cold spot in the middle...

We hear a lot about the rising sea levels, but besides the obvious, what does that really mean? Global warming, melting glaciers and thermal expansion is causing oceans to rise, and at this point, we aren't going to be able...

Artists Bigert & Bergström in rescue action on Sweden’s highest peak. A 500 sq. m reflective golden cloth was deployed on the mountain’s south peak on the evening of last year’s summer solstice. In the past few...