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Image: Tsanteleina Glacier, Italy
Glaciers’ self-cooling power nearing its peak, ISTA study warnsClimate

Glaciers’ self-cooling power nearing its peak, ISTA study warns

ISTA study confirms: Glaciers are fighting a losing battle against climate change Summary: Glaciers may soon lose their ability to cool the air around them,…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
Image: Scientists camped out high on a glacier in Tajikistan to take the ice core samples
Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistanceClimate

Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance

Tajikistan | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region,…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: The Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica
Image of the day: Thwaites Glacier retreat in AntarcticaNews

Image of the day: Thwaites Glacier retreat in Antarctica

Covering about 120 kilometres in width, the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica plays a critical role in regulating global sea levels. It drains a large…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskOctober 6, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: The Gries Glacier, Switzerland
Image of the day: Rapid retreat of Gries Glacier in the Swiss AlpsNews

Image of the day: Rapid retreat of Gries Glacier in the Swiss Alps

Switzerland’s Gries Glacier, nestled in the canton of Valais, is melting at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates the loss of alpine ice. The…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskSeptember 29, 2025 Full article
Image: Thwaites to Dotson
Northerly winds found to drive West Antarctic ice lossClimate

Northerly winds found to drive West Antarctic ice loss

Rapid ice loss from West Antarctica has long been blamed on strengthening westerly winds pushing warm ocean water toward its ice shelves, but new research…
SourceSourceSeptember 11, 2025 Full article
Image: Sunset above Machapuchare Mardi Himal track in the Himalaya mountains
Monsoon shifts intensify glacier melt across High Mountain AsiaClimate

Monsoon shifts intensify glacier melt across High Mountain Asia

Shifting precipitation patterns, driven by climate change, could reshape water security and environmental hazards for one of world’s most populated regions, research shows Summary: Glaciers…
SourceSourceSeptember 1, 2025 Full article
Image: Glacial stream on Hispar glacier
Melting glaciers boost Himalayan river flow but threaten long-term water securityClimate

Melting glaciers boost Himalayan river flow but threaten long-term water security

Melting glaciers are raising river levels and impacting hydropower Summary: Glaciers melting across High Mountain Asia are increasing water flow in at least 10% of…
SourceSourceAugust 15, 2025 Full article
Image: Iceberg calving
Falling ice accelerates Greenland glacier retreatClimate

Falling ice accelerates Greenland glacier retreat

The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasing rate, a process accelerated by glacier calving, in which huge chunks of ice break free and…
SourceSourceAugust 14, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: August 11, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: August 11, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (August 11, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskAugust 11, 2025 Full article
Image: Birds Eye View of the Cilo Sat Mountain Range, Turkey (s. glaciers, climate change)
Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate changeClimate

Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate change

Turkey | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers…
SourceSourceJuly 29, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: David Glacier, Drygalski Ice Tongue, Antarctica
Image of the day: Antarctica’s ice tongue carves into the Ross SeaNews

Image of the day: Antarctica’s ice tongue carves into the Ross Sea

In this Sentinel-2 image from 17 March 2025, Antarctica’s David Glacier is seen feeding the Drygalski Ice Tongue – a long, blade-like structure slicing nearly…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 22, 2025 Full article
Image: Airview, Greenland (s. glaciers melting)
Melting glaciers turn carbon-storing land into greenhouse gas sourcesClimate

Melting glaciers turn carbon-storing land into greenhouse gas sources

A new study conducted by geologists from the University of Florida and the University of Maryland reveals that, as land is exposed by melting glaciers,…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2025 Full article
Satellite Images: The Skeiðarárjökull glacier, Iceland
Image of the day: Dramatic retreat of Iceland’s Skeiðarárjökull glacierNews

Image of the day: Dramatic retreat of Iceland’s Skeiðarárjökull glacier

The Skeiðarárjökull glacier in southern Iceland is visibly retreating, as shown in Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images captured on 26 July 2017 and 6 July 2025.…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 9, 2025 Full article
3D globe graphic (s. climate, flood, water)
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: expertsNews

Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts

Kathmandu, Nepal | AFP Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: July 8, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: July 8, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 8, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 8, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: July 4, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: July 4, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 4, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 4, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: July 2, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: July 2, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 2, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 2, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: June 4, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 4, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 4, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 4, 2025 Full article
Image: Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Image of the day: Glacial collapse devastates Swiss villageNews

Image of the day: Glacial collapse devastates Swiss village

A catastrophic glacial collapse in the Swiss Alps triggered a massive landslide on 28 May 2025, engulfing much of the village of Blatten in the…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 31, 2025 Full article
The summit of Huayna Potosí, a mountain near La Paz, Bolivia. Here we find the Zongo glacier, one of several in the tropical Andes Mountains, that are now smaller than at any point since the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, according to new research from UW–Madison researchers and their collaborators.
Stronger climate policy could save half the world’s glaciersClimate

Stronger climate policy could save half the world’s glaciers

A study published in Science finds that twice as much of the world’s glacier mass could be preserved by meeting the 1.5°C threshold set by…
SourceSourceMay 31, 2025 Full article
Image: Aerial shot the Swiss village of Blatten after a massive glacier collapse
Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapseNews

Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapse

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2025 Full article
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Village partially destroyed in Swiss glacier collapseNews

Village partially destroyed in Swiss glacier collapse

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP A massive glacier collapse on Wednesday in southern Switzerland partially destroyed the small village of Blatten, which had been completely evacuated…
SourceSourceMay 28, 2025 Full article
Image: Block of ice falling down into the sea (s. sea level rise, climate change)
Dire sea level rise likely even in a 1.5°C world: studyClimate

Dire sea level rise likely even in a 1.5°C world: study

Paris, France | AFP Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy…
SourceSourceMay 20, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Elephant Foot Glacier, Greenland
Image of the day: The striking circular lobe of Greenland’s Elephant Foot GlacierNews

Image of the day: The striking circular lobe of Greenland’s Elephant Foot Glacier

Greenland’s Elephant Foot Glacier offers one of the most visually distinctive examples of a piedmont glacier - a type of glacier that flows from a…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 11, 2025 Full article