Latest Glaciers News

Moderate flooding is expected from a glacial dam outburst in Alaska's capital city

Oct. 21, 2024 15:31 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A flood warning was issued Saturday after an outburst from a glacial lake in Alaska's capital. Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above the city of Juneau. Since 2011 it has released glacier lake outburst floods each year that cause...

The world's rivers faced the driest year in three decades in 2023, the UN weather agency says

Oct. 07, 2024 07:59 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world's rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in some places. The World Meteorological...

Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024

Oct. 01, 2024 20:41 PM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — The volume of Switzerland's glaciers shrank again this summer, compounding the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%, scientific experts reported Tuesday. The cryosphere observation team at the Swiss...

Police in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1 man, saying no one is missing

Aug. 26, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Icelandic police on Monday called off the search for anyone trapped in the previous day's collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and injured another, saying that all members of the tourist expedition had been accounted for. Authorities had initially mounted a...

Picturesque glacier releases water down a river in Alaska. More than 100 homes are damaged

Aug. 06, 2024 22:11 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier damaged at least an estimated 100 homes in what has become a perennial hazard for nearby neighborhoods. The lake formed in a basin that was left behind when a nearby glacier retreated....