The rapid pace of melting glaciers is causing profound environmental and geopolitical changes due to shifting national borders.

Arrive at the Mons Hut sitting at over 7500 feet - You won't want to take your eyes off the spectacular Mons Glacier, smack ...

though other types of glaciers like cirque and hanging glaciers that exist in natural bowls in the landscape tend not to have a traditional terminus. And much like a typical river, over even a ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

According to the long-term observations by Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS), the area of glaciers in the Swiss Alps decreased from 1,311 km² in 1973 to 961 km² in 2016.

CONNOR: It’s flown up to the Cairngorm Plateau. Hanging valleys are created where smaller valleys meet the main glaciated valley. The glaciers in the smaller valleys were not so powerful ...