Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

Glaciers on the Dolomites have reached a "point of no return", meaning they will continue to melt and shrink even if global ...

The IAEA event, Cryosphere: The impact of retreating glaciers, will take place on 6 December at 11:00 (GMT +4). The panel discussion will focus on the high-risk areas of cryosphere melting and glacier ...

National Snow and Ice Data Center monitors sea ice, tracks snow, examines Arctic conditions and informs global decision-makers The frozen parts of the planet, known collectively as the cryosphere, are ...

While Arctic sea ice extent hasn’t definitively reached its seasonal peak yet at the time of writing, the melting season is about to begin any day now, at which point it will be clear whether this was ...

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan.

Climate and the cryosphere are the two pillars responsible for maintaining planetary balance and stability. The rapid changes in the hydrological flows of meltwater and sudden changes in patterns ...

We address glacial and periglacial processes in polar and alpine environments – the cryosphere -- as their evolution most clearly reflects the variations in climatic forcing, and as these landscapes ...

A media workshop aimed at fostering dialogue between the scientific community and the media was held in Kathmandu, ...

Conservation of glaciers and the urgent need to reduce carbon footprint were stressed during a two-day symposium on ...

As 2025 is observed as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and March 21 as World Glaciers Day, events across ...