As glaciers around the world continue to shrink and disappear, they are drawing more visitors than ever, not only for their beauty but for what they have come to represent in an era of climate change.

As Trump pulls back from regulations on climate change, many scientists remain worried about the warming of the oceans, melting glaciers and sea level rise. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien has ...

Northwest Montana’s glaciers are still melting, albeit slower than scientists previously predicted. Models produced by climate scientists in the 2000s suggested that the masses of ice that gave ...

Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol ...

Researchers have figured out how many glaciers around the world are likely to survive until the year 2100 under various global warming scenarios, and the outlook is sobering. At the highest analyzed ...

On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their fate. A major new international study led by ETH Zurich has, for the ...

While most of the world's glaciers are retreating as the climate warms, a small but significant population behaves very differently—and the consequences can be severe. A team of international ...