Climate change may be baring Mount Everest

Earth is fast becoming a planet where tropical glaciers will be myths. Here are a couple of recently released satellite images from 1988 and 2010 showing the shrinkage of the world's biggest tropical glacier, theQuelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. High ...

A new study that included contributions by University of Colorado researchers shows that glacial melt from sources not including the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contributes as much to sea level rise as does the ice loss from those two land ...

With global warming rapidly melting Arctic sea ice and glaciers making valuable stores of energy and minerals more accessible, voices of doom are warning of inevitable competition and potential conflict a new Great Game among the five Arctic ...

In the film, Waterworld, the earth has become one vast ocean as all the snows and glaciers have melted because of global warming. Only one spot of dry land is still left — it is Mount Everest and a bit of the surrounding area. Even if mankind is ...

-- Prospect Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: PSEC) said that it has provided a USD150m senior secured term loan to support the recapitalization of Arctic Glacier, Inc. Controlled by H.I.G Capital, LLC, Arctic Glacier is the largest producer of packaged ice in ...

Researchers have found that glaciers in the Mount Everest region including the Sagarmatha national park that surrounds the peak, have shrunk by 13 percent in the last

An Army helicopter, on air maintenance operations, crashed this morning in the icy heights of Siachen glacier but both the pilots survived the accident and were being evacuated for treatment, army...

Dallas Seavey knows what it's like to mush across the wilds of Alaska. Now it remains to be seen how he survives being dropped off in the middle of that wilderness and navigates his way out

About 90 per cent of glaciers in Tibet are shrinking because of black carbon pollution "transferred from South Asia" to the ecologically fragile Tibetan plateau, a Chinese scientist has warned.