A huge sub-glacial basin the size of Wales has been discovered under one of the key Antarctic ice sheets that could make it more unstable and liable to disintegration, a study has found.
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Avalanche buries Pakistani soldiers
Saturday 07 April 2012
An avalanche has smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said.
Matterhorn disintegrating in the face of global warming
Wednesday 04 April 2012
Cycle of freezing and thawing sees lumps of rock falling off the mountain, say scientists
Swedish rescuers find wreckage of crashed plane
Saturday 17 March 2012
Rescuers have found the wreckage of a Norwegian military plane that crashed with five people on board during an exercise in northern Sweden, officials said today.
The Saturday Quiz
Saturday 18 February 2012
1. The most populous country in the world where French is the official language is not France. Which country is it?
Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals
Thursday 09 February 2012
The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the Earth's frozen "cryosphere".
The icemen cometh
Monday 02 January 2012
An exhibition of photographs charting the journeys of Scott and Shackleton across Antarctica are the finest of their type ever produced
Glaciers in retreat around the world
Thursday 08 December 2011
Millions of people who rely on water from the glaciers of a mountain range in Peru are experiencing what scientists have called "peak water" - the point at which the runoff from the glaciers becomes progressively weaker even though the ice continues to melt.
Global warming causes Himalaya ice loss to double
Wednesday 07 December 2011
The glaciers of the Himalayas, suppliers of fresh water to more than a billion people, are undoubtedly retreating because of global warming, the head of the UN's climate change body reaffirmed yesterday – two years after he was embroiled in an international political row about similar forecasts.
Glaciergate part II: climate chief reheats Himalayas row
Wednesday 07 December 2011
Head of IPCC's claim of meltdown caused outcry two years ago – now he's repeated the warning
Climate change melting polar regions faster than ever before
Wednesday 09 November 2011
One of the clearest signs of climate change is the loss of floating sea ice in the Arctic
The changing face of Andean glaciers
Friday 02 September 2011
To the untrained eye, the view from the Yanapaqcha glacier, some 17,000ft above sea level in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, represents nature at her most sublime.
Parents speak of their 'fearless' adventurer son
Sunday 07 August 2011
As tributes are paid to the young man killed by a polar bear in Norway, questions are asked about the system supposed to prevent such attacks
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