Cryosphere refers to any region of the Earth that is frozen, most prominently glaciers, icebergs, and permafrost, including surface frozen lakes and rivers as well as the seasonally frozen ground.

UNESCO has appointed Dhiraj Pradhananga as the UNESCO Chair in Mountain Cryosphere and Water. Dr Pradhananga, an associate ...

One of the most common claims made by those who warn of an anthropogenic global warming crisis is that increases in temperature have led to unusual melting in mountain glaciers, Arctic sea ice, and ...

The current global climate warming is unprecedented and extensively accelerated. This is partly evidenced by the months of June, July, and August (considered meteorological summer in the Northern ...

We often see photographs that show how glaciers have diminished in size over the last century. The recession of glaciers is a direct result of global warming, resulting from the burning of fossil fuel ...

A tour boat sails near a glacier's terminus in the Kenai Mountains near Primrose, Alaska, in 2019. Scientists have issued the starkest warning yet that the world’s ice is under serious threat from ...

Following landmark 2025 Glacier Year, world leaders and scientists call for urgent investment, monitoring, and cooperation as ice loss accelerates.

The global cryosphere–all of the areas with frozen water on Earth–shrank by about 87,000 square kilometers (about 33,000 square miles), a area about the size of Lake Superior, per year on average, ...

National Snow and Ice Data Center monitors sea ice, tracks snow, examines Arctic conditions and informs global decision-makers The frozen parts of the planet, known collectively as the cryosphere, are ...