It warns that, as global temperatures rise, more mountain precipitation will fall as rain instead of snow, causing snowpacks to thin and melt earlier in the year. This acceleration in snowpack melt ...

In mountain ranges around the world ... by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break ...

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

a glacier geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey, said: “Mountain glaciers contain some of the largest freshwater reservoirs on Earth. Meltwater released in the summer provides the water ...