Tag: glaciers

Glaciers lost the equivalent of 560 million Olympic pools of ice in a single year, the fourth straight year of loss in every major glaciated region.

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

Rapid glacier melt threatens global water security, agriculture, and climate stability, putting billions at risk, warns the United Nations.

“Significant loss of glaciers means that we are not only witnessing a change in landscape or a loss of natural resources, it means that we are actively complicit in robbing the future from our children.”

Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing...

Glaciers in Antarctica are melting at an alarming rate. According to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letter,...

Signatories include the U.S., Canada, Denmark (for Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Norway, Russia, China, Iceland, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the European Union.

"It suggests that microplastics are now ubiquitous within the surface waters of the world's ocean."