Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Water from the melting ice often drains ...

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several ...

The declaration of the World Day for Glaciers, on March 21, is a global call to action as protecting glaciers is protecting man’s future ...

Scientists will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South ... in the Andes -- or Andean Mountain Range -- extend ...

Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, threatening access to fresh water for more than two billion people ... from India’s ...

Pakistan’s far north holds some of the world’s highest peaks and has a proud cultural identity, but until now international ...

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind moves over the ice in long, deliberate strokes, shaping a landscape caught ...