Glacier News

With the Mid-Atlantic Ridge slicing north-south across Iceland, the country is also a highly active geological zone, home to frequent earthquakes and active volcanoes that average one major eruption every 5 years

The glacier used to stretch six square miles (15 square kilometers)This was Iceland's first glacier to disappear

The accelerated melting appears to be swelling rivers during warm seasonsThe new analysis, spanning 40 years of satellite observations across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan

Nearly a third of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100. What does it mean for 300 million Indians who rely on it for water?

If adequate steps are not taken to limit global warming, two-thirds of glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas could melt by 2100Hindu Kush is Asia’s water tower, providing a vital regional lifeline to over two billion people through 10 main river

While coastal areas are at risk from storms and changes in sea level, melting glaciers threaten mountain areas

The study says total precipitation is increasing while the snowfall is decreasing with concurrent significant increase in rainfall at all zones of Northwestern Himalayas

A close encounter in the Patagonian Icefield

Amid ecological changes in Ladakh, Chewang Norphel's pioneering artificial glaciers prompt others to take up the cause

Daniel Roche, who discovered the human remains on Mont Blanc , says it could be of a female passenger from 1966 Boeing 707 flight, as he also discovered one of the plane's four jet engines