This only increases the risk of the Earth getting warmer, exacerbating climate change – which scientists describe as a 'runaway effect'. A glacier is simply the accumulation of snow compacted ...

"We're standing on the Khumbu Glacier right now and although it looks a rather static sight and quite beautiful with blue pinnacles and a deep blue sky with the moon popping up in the middle of it ...

Credit: Christine Siddoway / CU Boulder The dark reddish-brown bands are the layers of Tava sandstone researchers say were crushed under heavy glaciers during Snowball Earth. Credit: Liam Courtney ...

Everywhere on Earth ice is changing. The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912. Glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya in India are retreating so fast that researchers ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.

"The ice is smaller, thinner, more grey. It's very sad." But losing the glaciers is about more than losing a stunning view. The ice, which traditionally builds up in winter and melts slowly in ...

of rock strata were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet's Cryogenian ("Snowball Earth") period about 700 to 635 million years ago. "The fact that so many places are missing the ...

Scientists have predicted glaciers would melt, or retreat, as temperatures warm in the tropics—those regions bordering the Earth’s equator. But the study’s analysis of rock samples adjacent to four ...