A new study published in the journal PNAS, led by researchers at the University of Houston, suggests that significant glacial retreat began in the 1940s. Their results on the Thwaites Glacier ...

Auckland’s extreme drought and the rapid retreat of glaciers in the Southern Alps both highlight how important long-term observations are for water management policy and planning. New research ...

The findings show the world’s tropical regions have already warmed past limits last seen at the outset of the Holocene age. Scientists have predicted glaciers would melt, or retreat, as temperatures ...

Researchers are divided on the Thwaites Glacier's stability, with new studies highlighting both its increased vulnerability ...

A recent study has revealed that tropical glaciers in the Andes mountains of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia have shrunk to their smallest size in over 11,700 years, marking an unprecedented retreat ...

Aerial photographs from the 1940s, which have now been retrieved from a US archive, paint a detailed picture of glacier ...

The Space for Shore project utilizes radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission to provide precise, year-over-year insights into glacier retreat and calving intensity, particularly in areas ...

As the climate warms, glaciers retreat and meltwater collects, forming lakes. The impact of global warming on glacial lake floods is yet to be defined, but it has increased both the volume and ...

Experts assess the country’s glaciers every year between late September and early October. The extreme retreat of 2022 is best illustrated by a comparison: If all the resulting meltwater had ...

Climate change and glacier retreat At this point, the planet’s melting glaciers have become “an icon of climate change,” said Uhlenbrook. In the Swiss Alps, he added, the total glacier mass ...