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Yesid Achicue, an Indigenous mountain guide from the Cauca region in Colombia. Image courtesy of Yesid Achicue.

Voices from the land: As the Andes’ glaciers melt, our values can help (commentary)

Yesid Achicue 14 Oct 2025

Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record

Associated Press 2 Oct 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025
The abandoned village of Samjung, with ancient caves carved in the cliffs in the background, is seen in the Mustang region, 462 kilometers west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Ancient Himalayan village relocates as climate shifts reshape daily life

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025
researcher glacier

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

María Fernanda Rodríguez and Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 30 Jun 2025

Switzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

Associated Press 25 Jun 2025
View of the village Brienz and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, File)

Swiss village evacuated over threat of rockslide

Associated Press 17 Jun 2025

Microplastics and melting ice reveal deepening crisis in Antarctica

Soledad Domínguez 16 Jun 2025

Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2025
Banner image of a glacier in Greenland from NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jun 2025

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Aimee Gabay 16 Apr 2025

Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly

Sean Mowbray 20 Feb 2025

Photo series on Himalayan water-saving ice stupas wins global award

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024
The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024
An ice shelf and the sea in Greenland.

High-resolution maps reveal surprises about how ice shelves melt

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Aug 2024
Llamas moving through the harsh post-glacial landscape below the Uruashraju glacier. Photo credit: Anaïs Zimmer

Llama herding helps community in Peru recover from a melting glacier

Sierra Bouchér 27 Nov 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023
The National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition team climbs up a steep slope.

Sagarmatha microbes may survive harsh conditions for decades

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2023

Ahead of polls, Nepal’s political parties, voters take heed of climate impacts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Nov 2022

On the roof of the world, water is life. Or a sign of it, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Oct 2022

With sea ice melting, glacial ice could be a lifeline for polar bears

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2022

China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2022

As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2022

As its glaciers melt, Nepal is forced into an adaptation not of its choosing

Johan Augustin 27 Dec 2021

Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021
Even if snowfall rates returned to those of the 1980s, the ice sheet would continue to shrink. Image credit: Michalea King.

The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away

Nikk Ogasa 2 Dec 2020

IPCC special report finds oceans and cryosphere changing rapidly due to global warming

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2019

More than 50 lakes lie hidden beneath Greenland ice sheet, study finds

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

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