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Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost a quarter of their volume in the past decade alone, a study warned Wednesday, heightening concerns over ...

Huss also warned that the shrinking of glaciers contributes to the destabilisation of mountains. That can trigger avalanches of rock and ice, such as the devastating glacier collapse that destroyed ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Switzerland’s glaciers have lost 24 percent of their volume over the past decade, researchers said Wednesday, warning that ...

Deep in West Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier — known to scientists as the “Doomsday Glacier.” It’s one of the largest ice formations on Earth, and it’s melting faster than anyone predicted. If it ...

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 ...

Flowing ice was first documented in the region in the late 19th century, according to the study. The eventual disappearance would mark the first time these mountain tops have been glacier-free. In the ...

OBERGOMS, Switzerland (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 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 ...