Glacier

Global water reserves decline as river discharge falls to 35-year low in 2025, WMO report shows

According to the WMO State of Global Water Resources Report, the water cycle has become “erratic and unpredictable” over the past few years.

This aerial photograph shows the wreckage of a World War II German warship, one of dozens sunk by retreating Nazi forces in September 1944, emerging from the low waters of the Danube River near Prahovo, Serbia, on August 11, 2026.
Ken Follett returns with an epic on building Stonehenge in 2500 BCE.

Humans, not glaciers, brought stones to Stonehenge, study confirms

The Jewish American spies that flew into Nazi Europe: WWII US spy gear emerges from Tyrolean glacier.

WWII Jewish American spies’ gear found in Tyrolean glacier after missions in Nazi Europe

Dennis Bell in 1959.

66-Year Antarctic Mystery Solved: Missing Meteorologist Recovered after Glacier Melt


Tons of greenhouse gases released due to thawing permafrost-study

From the desert to Alaska, a considerable amount of greenhouse gas is being produced and released into the atmosphere due to rapidly thawing permafrost.

Greenhouse gases

Man-made climate change cost Mt. Everest 2,000 years of ice in 25 years - study

The declining glacier will make Mount Everest climbers have to overcome bedrock, but it could also spell bad news for the 1 billion people who depend on it for water.

 Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

Himalayan glaciers melting at unprecedented rate, threaten region's water supply- study

A new study examining the ice loss of the Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age has shown that they are melting at an unprecedented rate in comparison to the previous seven centuries.

 Himalayan glacier and Nangpa La border pass to Nepal in the distance.

As climate changes, study finds world's glaciers melting faster

Glaciers lost 227 gigatonnes of ice annually from 2000 to 2004, but that increased to an average of 298 gigatonnes each year after 2015.

Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, July 7, 2008.

Long-forgotten Viking mountain pass found in Norway following glacier melt

Due to global warming, high-elevation ice patches and glaciers have recently yielded a myriad of historical finds for archaeologists to discover.

A general view over a valley in the mountains of south Norway from beside Lendbreen glacier is seen in this undated picture