Glaciers worldwide are archives of human pollution, preserving carbon from fossil fuels and wildfires in their ice for ...

Though phytoplankton may grow more in warmer waters, stratification limits nutrients, reducing the fjords' long-term carbon ...

Glaciers provide a unique opportunity for researchers to measure levels of atmospheric carbon deposition. Unlike other ...

Swiss ski resorts have succeeded in boosting visitor numbers through offers such as multi-resort passes. But more needs to be ...

Melting glaciers across the U.S. are rapidly altering river systems, reducing freshwater flow and threatening long-term water ...

Famous IAS officer Athar Aamir Khan is currently posted as Deputy Commissioner in a breathtakingly beautiful Kashmiri town, ...

But the country's glaciers melted, and as they did, it revealed huge numbers of pathogens in the melting ice. Some of these disease-causing bugs may be so old, human immune systems are totally ...

Ice is highly effective at reflecting solar radiation back into space, so when the region’s floes and glaciers start to disintegrate and disappear, more and more of the dark soil and ocean that lie ...

may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from melting glaciers, according to a new study from scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder. In the new research, geophysicists Tao Yuan ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...