In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 per ...

However, the Report indicates that glaciers across the world are melting at unprecedented rates, and that mountain waters are ...

March 25, 2025 - According to the UN World Water Development Report 2025, mountains provide up to 60% of the world’s annual ...

Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing as greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. In the ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions ... sending huge volumes of water and debris sweeping down the mountain valleys, wiping out everything in the way. Most glacial lakes ...

Melting of glaciers can trigger natural disasters such as ... According to a report published Friday by UNESCO, mountains provide up to 60 percent of the world's annual freshwater flow. More than two ...

The United Nations' new report highlights that the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers has increased the vulnerability of ...

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60-meter) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time the ...

Rapid glacier melt threatens food, water and energy, with mountain regions facing severe disruptions to agriculture and ...

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how ...