HELHEIM GLACIER, August 21: This is where Earth’s refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

ROME, July 4: A 55-year-old German woman has died after falling into a crevasse on the Forni glacier in Italy’s northern Lombardy region.

WASHINGTON, June 20: Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to.

KATHMANDU, June 11: The temperature of coldest glacier ice in Nepal has been measured at -3.3 degree Celsius and this finding challenge the existing belief that this might be up to -10 degree Celsius.

WEST ANTARCTICA, Jan 31: A hole the size of two-thirds of Manhattan and 1,000 feet deep has been found in a glacier in Antarctica.

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YULONGXUESHAN, China, Oct 21 : The loud crack rang out from the fog above the Baishui No. 1 Glacier as a stone shard careened down the ice, flying past Chen Yanjun as he operated a GPS device.

High above the sub-tropical forests and lush grasslands of Nepal, nestled between the scree and moraine from the glaciers of Mount Everest, plants are found braving the elements and surviving in some of the harshest conditions on the planet.

BERLIN, July 19:  Swiss police say they’ve formally identified two bodies found on an Alpine glacier as those of a couple missing for nearly 75 years.