The Swedish photographer capturing the vanishing glaciers – Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer
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Scientists are racing to find out whether the rapid retreat of glaciers could drive a surge in eruptions as magma builds under Iceland
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Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border
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A seismic signal heard across the world last September for nine days has been traced back to a trapped tsunami triggered by a landslide in the remote fjords of Greenland
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Maelstrom under Greenland's glaciers could slow future sea level rise – pioneering mission into mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
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I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.
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An American man has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed while he was on a group tour to a glacier
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A melting Alaska glacier keeps inundating Juneau
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Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up – decade-old idea for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign
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In a historic feat, Catalan adventurer and elite kayaker Aniol Serrasolses has conquered the world's highest glacier waterfall drop in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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With its glaciers, fjords and craggy mountains, Southern Norway is jaw-droppingly beautiful – and nature leads the region's chefs who draw on the local bounties
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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“Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change”
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To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords in Greenland and Antarctica
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
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Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
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Three more glaciers gone from Mount Rainier, scientist reports
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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This is Patagonia | Hard first ascents in unforgiving mountains
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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A 'blue blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean has been slowing down the melting of Iceland's glaciers, a new study suggests
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Glaciers I: Glacial landsystems and locations
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Mystery of glacial lake floods solved
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
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Langjökull – Thirty-nine tourists got stuck for hours in a blizzard at an Icelandic glacier, but are now safe
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In Iceland, a memorial ceremony for the Okjökull glacier suggests new ways to think about climate change
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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Swedish mountain loses highest peak title due to global heating – glacier at Kebnekaise's summit has shrunk amid soaring Arctic temperatures
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New Zealand glaciers won't survive this century, scientists say
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Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to global warming with a poignant letter to the future
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What remains - For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end
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A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier — big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan
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Glaciers are retreating. Millions rely on their water.
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Why there's a perfectly rectangular iceberg floating in Antarctica
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Melting glaciers are triggering the world's biggest tsunamis
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The ice stupa: An artificial glacier growing in the desert
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