A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its floating ice tongue. Scientists expect two more huge sections could soon ...

New satellite images show an ice island about the size of Manhattan breaking away from a Greenland glacier, marking the largest loss of floating ice there in over 10 years. The European Space Agency’s ...

I am climbing Switzerland’s Rhône glacier when I feel a thump deep under my feet, then another. The glacier is shifting and cracking as it slides down the mountain, opening new crevasses within.

An initial assessment of satellite imagery suggests an “ice avalanche” from a high-altitude glacier sent a giant cascade into the valley below. By Leo Sands The deadly flooding in Nepal on Wednesday ...

A huge slab of floating ice has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating an ice island roughly the size of Manhattan. The 76.4 sq km section separated from the glacier’s floating ice ...

The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the enormous flash flood that swept down a river valley in Nepal and Tibet today won’t be clear for weeks. But initial analyses of satellite images ...

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier in 3D and found it ...

Raging flash floodwaters roared through a Himalayan valley on Wednesday, wiping out villages, roads, and hydropower projects along the Nepal-Tibet border and leaving hundreds unaccounted for, many of ...

The story so far: A devastating flash flood in the Bhote Koshi–Trishuli river system has killed at least 389 people in Nepal and three in Tibet, while more than 1,400 people are reported missing.

Human-caused global warming thinned glaciers and thawed mountain permafrost, likely helping to destabilize the Himalayan ...

Scientists are rushing to understand the exact causes of the deadly flash flood that has sent a wall of mud and water tearing through Himalayan river valleys on the China-Nepal border. What’s clear so ...

Over 570 people have died and 2,000 are missing since catastrophic flash flooding tore through villages along the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday. Approximately 90 Americans are unaccounted for across ...