glaciers

App helps track treasures exposed by melting glaciers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60cd3bkuW8 A new mobile phone application is helping track objects released by melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps. To tell…

Greenland’s largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: study

by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) -- The three largest glaciers in Greenland -- which hold enough frozen water to…

Climate change fuels sharp increase in glacier lakes

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to…

Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study

PARIS, France (AFP) — The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centres on the water that once…

Tropical Indonesia’s tiny glaciers to melt away in a decade: study

by Dessy Sagita and Peter Brieger Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia's little-known glaciers are melting so fast they…

Swiss glaciers shrink 10 percent in five years: study

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- Switzerland's glaciers have lost a tenth of their volume in the past five years alone --…

World’s polar ice caps are shrinking little by little

The world’s polar ice caps are shrinking little by little. The Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the…

Global warming is melting mountain glaciers: study

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Global warming is responsible for the melting of mountain glaciers around the world in the…

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