Browsing: glaciers

Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters rise, 100 million people lose their homes. At…

The United States government called her one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists. Assata Shakur called herself a 20th-century escaped slave.Claiming the runaway slave narrative proved a…

Glaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years, according to a study, with more than 100…

From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas. Once a vast white…

By Raymond Zhong, Jason Gulley and Bora Erden Jason Gulley spent four weeks trekking through the Everest region to report and photograph this article, which was…

Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to melt away completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for…

From the slopes behind the village of Ernen, it is possible to see the gouge where the Fiesch glacier once tumbled towards the valley in the…

“It felt really scary … like being in the middle of a burning city during a night raid.” Dr Arwyn Edwards is not describing urban warfare…