And it turns out, Ötzi was just the beginning. As our climate warms, the Earth's glaciers and ice patches are melting. And in the decades since Ötzi's discovery, thousands of artifacts made of ...

The result is accelerated melting of the ice cover. The Hardangerjøkulen glacier, known from the movie "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," is also experiencing rapid melting. The ice thickness ...

The glacier Hardangerjøkulen, known from "Star Wars," is also melting. Since the beginning of the 21st century, its front has retreated by over 1,509 feet, and ice thickness decreased by 49 feet.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, part of which is shown in this image of Jakobshavn Glacier, is now melting at an incredibly rapid pace, pushing sea levels upward while upsetting global weather patterns.

Glaciers have historically determined the boundary between Italy and Switzerland in the Alps. Now, their melting has led the ... its border to reflect changing ice. In 2006, Italy and Austria ...

As glaciers and ice patches melt, they reveal untold stories of human skill, adventure, faith – and deadly conflict. Some 5,000 years ago, a tattooed man in his 40s, with brown eyes and thinning ...

This concerns the glaciers on the Matterhorn Peak, one of the highest peaks in the Alps. For decades, these glaciers have served as a natural border between the two countries. However, in recent years ...

causing the sheet to melt and flow more rapidly. The freshwater coming from the glacier can slow critical ocean circulation, and the Greenland ice sheet is losing about 270 billion tons of ice ...

cause ice shelves to melt in warmer waters, and impede the Southern Ocean from absorbing carbon dioxide. But this new research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, explores another ...