The team discovered that the European Alps’ glaciers have shrunk the most of all — 39% in just over two decades, compared to a global average of 5%. Earthwave co-founder Livia Jakob said the ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the ...

In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest. International researchers with the participation of TU Graz present a global assessment of ice loss since the ...

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At more than 20km long, Aletsch Glacier is the biggest in the European Alps. But its front has retreated by around 3.2km (2 ...

Fifteen years ago, scientists were worried most about the Andes and the Patagonia glaciers, but the Alps have shrunk so fast they could eventually disappear ...

The results revealed extreme losses in glaciers in Europe's Alps and Pyrenees mountains, with both regions showing a 40% decline in glacier volume over the study period. "In the European Alps ...

An analysis of more than 270,000 glaciers worldwide reveals that they have lost around 7 trillion tonnes of ice since 2000, raising sea levels by 2 centimetres ...

While the glaciers of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands have only lost 1.5 per cent of their mass, they have shrunk the most in the Alps and the Pyrenees, at around 39 per cent.

Our planet is getting warmer every year, but over the last couple of years in the Swiss Alps, that's on epic display. And while glaciers in Switzerland lost *** record amount of ice last year ...