Following landmark 2025 Glacier Year, world leaders and scientists call for urgent investment, monitoring, and cooperation as ...

From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

We often see photographs that show how glaciers have diminished in size over the last century. The recession of glaciers is a direct result of global warming, resulting from the burning of fossil fuel ...

The global cryosphere–all of the areas with frozen water on Earth–shrank by about 87,000 square kilometers (about 33,000 square miles), a area about the size of Lake Superior, per year on average, ...

A dangerous new era of mountain disasters is unfolding across the Hindu Kush Himalaya’s (HKH) most vital water systems.

The International Year for Glaciers' Preservation in 2025 put glaciers firmly on the global agenda. It is now time to follow through with concrete ...

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As glaciers shrink, sea ice thins, and once-solid ground softens, tiny living ...

Abstract: The global cryosphere – the frozen water domain – is experiencing unprecedented change. To match this rapid pace, innovative technological approaches and interdisciplinary engineering ...

(a) Specificity of supraglacial virus populations (vOTUs). (b) Shared and unique vOTUs across different regions. (c) Proportion of classified vOTUs. (d) Compositions of classified vOTUs. (e) Relative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thawing ice is activating microbes that release carbon and toxins, creating new risks for climate and communities. (CREDIT: ...