Italy's Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this ...
Glaciers do far more than help scientists reconstruct past temperatures. Under the right conditions, they also preserve an extraordinary environmental archive, trapping tiny particles carried through ...
"At some glaciers we've seen four metres of ice loss at the highest point, where they should be covered by several metres of ...
A vivid collection of extremes defines Hohe Tauern National Park. At a little over 716,000 square miles (1,856 square kilometers), it's the Alpine region's largest nature reserve as well as one of the ...
A new study compared the glaciers in the Lower 48 states today against historical data from the mid-20th century. The results ...