A photo series on ice stupas — artificial glaciers in the northern Indian Himalayas ... helped build a 22-meter-high (72-feet-high) ice stupa. Image courtesy of Ciril Jazbec for Onewater.

NASA's Landsats captured views of a Swiss glacier 40 years apart, showing how a warming world has reduced its footprint.

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the ...

An international team of scientists says Earth's glaciers are vanishing so fast they now release 273 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean each year. While the world's glaciers have lost five per ...

Mountain glaciers - frozen rivers of ice – act as a freshwater resource for millions of people worldwide and lock up enough water to raise global sea-levels by 32cm (13in) if they melted entirely.

The world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 346 billion tons annually over about the next decade, according to the ...

Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's mountains. As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice loss has repercussions for climate and water cycles. This in turn has ...