A new tour from the Icelandic tour operator Arctic Adventures offers a way for visitors to get up close and personal with Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier. In the southeast corner of Iceland, ...

When Matthias Huss first visited Rhône Glacier in Switzerland 35 years ago, the ice was just a short walk from where his parents would park the car. "When I first stepped onto the ice... there [was] a ...

No one understood the brutality and wonder of Iceland better than its original 9th-to-10th-century Norwegian settlers. They set sail into the open ocean, landed on an island riven by impassable ...

The arctic island is the largest land ice contributor to rising sea levels. Greenland is known as the largest contributor to rising sea levels but a new study explores how the island's glaciers could ...

GENEVA — Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest ...

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers ...

OBERGOMS, Switzerland, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said ...

Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the largest in northern Lombardy, has receded so significantly due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it using methods employed for the past 130 ...