For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...

In the shadow of melting glaciers, a quiet revolution is unfolding one that is stirring to life volcanoes long inactive under ...

Science Tropical Glaciers in the Andes Are the Smallest They’ve Been in 11,700 Years Four different glaciers along the Andes range no longer have hospitable conditions.

Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, ...

“Over time the cumulative effect of multiple eruptions can contribute to long-term global warming because of a buildup of greenhouse gases,” Moreno-Yaeger explained. “This creates a positive feedback ...

Learn more about the connection between melting glaciers and volcanic eruptions, a volatile relationship that has existed ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop. At nearly 18,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes, wild camelids called ...

Hundreds of dormant volcanoes across the globe—particularly in Antarctica—could become more active thanks to climate change.

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

Scientists say glaciers have always acted as reservoirs and floodgates, storing water as snow and ice, and gradually releasing it throughout the year; now water often arrives in unregulated torrents.