Stronger global climate protection could preserve more than a quarter of the ice in the Swiss Alps, says the Swiss Academy of ...

The world's glaciers continue to vanish at an alarming rate, with five of the past six years witnessing the most rapid ...

Closer to the present focus of our areas of study, Himalayan glaciers have also been found to be in a state of general retreat since 1850 (Mayewski & Jeschke 1979). The Himalayan glaciers feed seven ...

The glacial retreat was also felt on the Jungfraujoch, the highest site of glaciological measurement activity. Since 1850, the glaciers have lost much of their surface area There are – or rather ...

Mountain glaciers ... they haven't been in since before the Holocene began 11,700 years ago, and this is directly caused by ...

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record ... have lost more than 9,000 billion tonnes since records began in 1975. "This is equivalent to a huge ice block ...