Aerial-view-of-brine-pools-at-the-SQM-lithium-mine-on-the-Atacama-salt-flat-in-the-Atacama-desert-of-northern-Chile-10-January-2013-Ivan-Alvarado-REUTERS

Contact: Dr. Marco Tedesco, Cryosphere Processes Laboratory, The City College of New York, mtedesco(at)sci(dot)ccny(dot)cuny(dot)eduMartin Sommerkorn, WWF Global Arctic Programme, msommerkorn(at)wwf(dot)noJanuary 20, 2011 New York (Vocus/PRWEB) – New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland...

Tourists take the obligatory photos after hiking to Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. The lake is fed by cascading waterfalls fed by Sperry Glacier, which has shrunk from 331 acres in 1966 to less than 200 acres today. Photo:...

By Doyle Rice2 April 2014 (USA TODAY) – Drought-weary California got more bad news Tuesday. Though late-season storms slightly boosted the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, it's still far below normal as the spring melt fast approaches. "This is dismal...