This week, a two-kilometer chunk of ice broke off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier in Tajikistan, roaring downstream for nearly ...

Icebergs are magical, majestic feats of Mother Nature. Sadly, according to the experts, those gigantic hunks of ice are melting due to climate change – which could result in global environmental ...

A massive landslide near South Sawyer Glacier in Southeast Alaska unleashed a powerful local tsunami early Sunday morning(August 10), sending waves towering up to 100 ...

Glacier-related risks are becoming a global concern, according to Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Speaking at the Glacier Preservation Conference in ...

(CNN) — A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau for the third consecutive August. “A glacial outburst has occurred ...

It’s a rare sight to witness a glacier break apart and fall into the sea. But a handful of people were lucky enough to witness the extraordinary phenomena, recently, at the Bruggen Glacier in Chile. A ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

A deadly wall of muddy water that swept away an Indian Himalayan town this week was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier exacerbated by the rising effects of climate change, experts said on ...

A team member of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, passes the Rhone Glacier covered by sheets near Goms, Switzerland ...

OBERGOMS, Switzerland, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said ...