The next big disaster may come from the Himalayas? Millions of people reportedly live in the shadow of thousands of glacial lakes that are swelling as.

Scientists drilling into Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier faced unexpected challenges.

IIT Guwahati researchers identify 493 high-risk sites for future glacial lakes in the Eastern Himalayas to enhance disaster ...

According to Mao Jinhuang, a professor at the School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Jishishan county's post-disaster recovery and reconstruction -- ensuring both resettlement and prosperity -- ...

A team of scientists and engineers racing to reach the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier were thwarted by the rapidly-refreezing ...

Scientists have classified Thulagi as one of the most dangerous glacial lakes in the Himalayas, among 47 others on an ICIMOD watchlist. They fear a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), a sudden release ...

Ritesh Mehta interviews director Sara Dosa on Time and Water, her Sundance-premiering documentary about Icelandic glaciers.

Twenty years ago "An Inconvenient Truth" received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. Though it was full of ...

Last May, rocks and earth from a landslide high in the Swiss Alps tumbled down onto the Birch glacier. The weight put so much pressure on the alpine glacier that just over a week later, it collapsed – ...

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 ...

Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in the Amundsen Sea ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent ...