Once the Doomsday Glacier goes, it will likely take most of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with it ... particularly in moderating the delivery of warm deep ocean water that is the main driver of the ...

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable.

Inch by inch, as massive glaciers crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea ... our data imply that the delivery of chemical elements into the oceans also played a role in this,” Kirkland ...

GENEVA - All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the ...

Between 2000 and 2011, glaciers were melting at a rate of about 231 billion tonnes of ice per year on average, the researchers found. This melt rate increased between 2012 and 2023 to 314 billion ...

Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's mountains. As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice loss has repercussions for climate and water cycles. This in turn has ...

Since last year, the country's glaciers lost 3.1 cubic kilometers of ice, which corresponds to more than 6% of their volume. These record figures were presented on Wednesday by glaciologists from ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...