As carbon emissions push Earth’s temperature higher and higher, Antarctica is taking the brunt of the impact. This frozen continent is warming nearly twice as fast as the…
Read more Worst-Case Climate Scenario Would Irreversibly Damage Antarctica, Scientists WarnROME — Scientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in an Antarctic vault for future generations…
Read more As global warming melts glaciers, a novel sanctuary in Antarctica is opening to preserve ice samplesWhile tracing the footsteps of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ill-fated Endurance ship, researchers discovered hundreds of fish nests arranged in particular patterns. A remotely operated…
Read more Scientists Went Looking for Shackleton’s Endurance. They found a Hidden Fish City in Perfect Formation InsteadGENEVA — Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the…
Read more Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on recordIn mid-May, at about ten thousand feet above sea level, a rocky mountainside in the Swiss Alps gave way and tumbled onto a field of ice called the…
Read more The Lessons of a Glacier’s CollapseLIMA, Peru — Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers became extinct due to climate change between…
Read more Peru lost more than half of its glacier surfaceIn pockets of Europe’s Alpine mountains, glaciers are abundant enough that ski resorts operate above the snow and ice. Ski lifts, resorts, cabins and huts dot the landscape…
Read more AP PHOTOS: As Alpine glaciers slowly disappear, new landscapes are appearing in their placeJUNEAU, Alaska — Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and damaged others were receding Monday in Alaska’s capital city after an outburst…
Read more Glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks, destroys at least 2 buildingsJUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows…
Read more Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedesJUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows…
Read more Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedesByMATTHIAS SCHRADER Associated Press Team members of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network ‘Glamos’, Matthias Huss, drill holes into the Rhone…
Read more AP PHOTOS: To save Alpine glaciers, Swiss team monitors the escalating meltBENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their current volume this century…
Read more Himalayan glaciers could lose 80% of their volume if global warming not controlled, study findsA majority of Swiss citizens have voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation’s greenhouse gas emissions…
Read more As Switzerland’s glaciers melt, Alpine nation backs climate bill with net zero target for 2050Nepal’s government is honoring record-holding climbers during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago ByBINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press Hari Budha Magar, former Gurkha veteran…
Read more Nepal honors Sherpa guides, climbers to mark 70th anniversary of Mount Everest conquestBRIENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before an evacuation order took effect on Friday in a tiny…
Read more Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threatBRIENZ, Switzerland — Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before a looming deadline on Friday to evacuate a village in eastern…
Read more Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threatBRIENZ, Switzerland — Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before a looming deadline on Friday to evacuate a village in eastern…
Read more Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threatANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two mountain climbers missing in Alaska likely triggered a small avalanche, and officials said Tuesday the projected path of their suspected fall would end at…
Read more Missing climbers in Alaska likely triggered avalanche, fellThe world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at…
Read more Study: Two-thirds of glaciers on track to disappear by 2100NEW DELHI — At least 10 trainee mountaineers died Tuesday after being swept away by an avalanche in the Himalayas in northern India, media reports said, as rescuers…
Read more 10 mountaineers killed after avalanche in northern India
