Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent image released by the European Space Agency, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured an image of Chile's Laguna ...

Chile’s long-running megadrought has pushed its Andean ice to a breaking point, shrinking glaciers that once buffered cities and farms from dry years and leaving a water deficit that will not quickly ...

Patagonia’s glaciers have been shrinking faster than ever over the past two decades, and the reasons go far beyond simple warming. New research shows a deeper, long-term shift in the atmosphere is to ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

As the planet warms, the world’s glaciers are melting faster than snow can replenish the ice. That has implications for sea level rise, ocean currents, and global weather patterns. But collecting data ...