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Exploring India's majestic glaciers: 10 frozen wonders
India, amidst its diverse landscapes, hosts several awe-inspiring glaciers that contribute signific…
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A glacier in the Italian Alps is turning pink as algae eats away the snow
Glacier-eating algae could take over as global temperatures rise, turning critical snow and ice bri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Key ice shelf on Antarctica's doomsday glacier will probably shatter like a car windshield within 5 years, scientists say
Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier — a key source of sea-level rise — will melt much faster after losing…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A camera from a 1937 explorer was discovered on a Canadian glacier. Scientists are trying to develop the 85-year-old film loaded inside.
Decades ago, explorer Bradford Washburn hit bad weather and abandoned his camera gear on the remote…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Nepal is planning to move its Everest base camp because of rapidly thinning glaciers and erosion from climbers
The base camp, which is on top of a glacier thinning at a rate of 1 meter per year, is unsafe for c…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Glaciers in Switzerland melted so much that they revealed 2 long-lost bodies and a plane wreck from 1968
As the world warms due to climate change, glaciers in the Swiss Alps are thawing, especially in the…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Time-lapse video shows the ice shelf of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers breaking into large chunks
Time-lapse footage of Pine Island Glacier between 2017 and 2020 shows its ice shelf breaking into l…
Sophia Ankel
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The remains of long-lost climbers are appearing as climate change melts glaciers
Earlier this month, Swiss officials found the remains of a climber who had been missing since 1986 …
Katie Hawkinson
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Map shows the ice sheets and glaciers melting that scientists most fear will be the source of catastrophic rising sea levels
Sea levels are rising steadily each year due to global warming, but these glaciers and ice sheets m…
Marianne Guenot,Annie Fu
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Scientists unearth remains of modern glacier near Mars' equator
Scientists have unearthed the remains of a modern glacier near Mars' equator, raising the possibili…
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After decades of climate change, 42 square miles of ice broke away from the largest remaining Arctic shelf and shattered
The Spalte Glacier in northeast Greenland has split off the Arctic's largest ice shelf and is adrif…
Mia Jankowicz
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'Doomsday' glacier which could raise sea levels by several feet if melted — is 'holding on by its fingernails' says new study
Using a new sea floor mapping technique, scientists found the Thwaites "Doomsday" glacier had retre…
Mia Jankowicz
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Lump of glacier falls off Italian Alps, sparking avalanche that crushed at least 6 hikers to death
Part of the glacier in the Marmolada range collapsed on Sunday, prompting a desperate search for su…
Sinéad Baker
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A glacier in China is melting at an unprecedented rate — but it is India that may end up paying the price
A cluster of Chinese glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate — and could have disastrous cons…
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People in Iceland are erecting a plaque to eulogize the country's first glacier lost to climate change
"This will be the first monument to a glacier lost to climate change anywhere in the world," Cymene…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elite cocktail bars in the UAE have a new way to draw in customers: luxury ice from arctic glaciers
A company in Greenland is harvesting ice from the country's shrinking glaciers and selling it to el…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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It's now 'inevitable' that American West will lose all of its glaciers
"It's inevitable that we will lose them all over the next few decades," Farge said. "The Colorado g…
Rafi Letzter
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One of Antarctica's biggest glaciers will soon reach a point of irreversible melting. That would cause sea levels to rise at least 1.6 feet.
Every year, the portion of the Thwaites Glacier's floating ice shelf that extends into the sea gets…