Skardu, Pakistan – As Pakistan grapples with the effects of rising temperatures that are melting its glaciers, residents in the country’s high-altitude Himalayan region have adopted a traditional ...

They want to prevent the a-thaw-calypse. The looming demise of Antarctica’s notorious Thwaites Glacier, colloquially known as the Doomsday Glacier, could send seas rising to catastrophic heights.

A group of engineers and scientists are planning to build a 50-mile underwater barrier around the melting “Doomsday glacier” in a bid to stop it collapsing into the ocean, triggering a disastrous rise ...

When Ted Scambos visited the Arapaho Glacier in 2021, it was dramatically smaller compared to when he first saw it nearly 20 years earlier. Scambos, a University of Colorado Boulder senior research ...

A large and fast-melting glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically since 2017. This may be a sign that the floating ice shelf in front of it is no longer helping to hold back the ice. Pine ...

The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already contributes four per cent of annual sea level rise, but can the consequences of climate change be barricaded off? A global group of scientists, engineers and policy ...

Mountain goat populations in Glacier National Park have plummeted sharply in recent years, according to new research on the iconic species that lives in the park’s mountainous terrain. “This is the ...

If you grew up believing that the most magical train journey in the world belonged to a bespectacled boy headed to Hogwarts, Switzerland may quietly challenge that idea—without spells, owls or ...

Switzerland’s Glacier Express offers a magical 8-hour train journey through the Alps, often compared to scenes from movies. Switzerland’s iconic Glacier Express, a luxury train that takes passengers ...

As the icebreaker Araon sailed back and forth alongside the Thwaites Glacier collecting oceanographic data on Thursday and Friday, our photographer took the opportunity to make some close-ups. “I ...

A team of scientists are staring climate change in the eye, the New York Times reports, setting sail for the infamous “Doomsday Glacier” in Antarctica in an attempt to study it up close. The enormous ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. By Raymond Zhong Scientists have never loved the scary ...