With 11 percent of the landmass covered in ice, rapidly ebbing glaciers are threatening to reshape Iceland’s landscape, and Haraldsson, 74, is part of a contingent of volunteer glacier monitors ...

Scientists believe that the 400-plus glaciers in Iceland will all be gone by 2200. "Currently, Iceland loses 11 billion tons of ice mass every year.

About 100 years ago, the glacier covered almost 6 square miles of a mountainside in western Iceland and measured 50 meters thick. Climate change: Why Trump’s panel on climate science is ...

"It's hard to imagine Iceland without glaciers." Sigurðsson plans to hike up to the summit area on August 18, and expects that some 100 people will attend the glacier memorial.

Jökulsárlón Lagoon in Iceland is one of the most visually arresting spots on earth. The lagoon sits at the base of Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier. Close to the sea but slightly below sea level ...

The Okjökull Glacier in Borgarfjörður, West Iceland, lost its glacier status in 2014 after it significantly melted down, according to Rice University in Houston.

Iceland is rising up. In a forthcoming study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, geologists from the University of Arizona report that as global warming diminishes glaciers in Iceland ...

Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the ...

OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland -- Leading politicians and scientists in Iceland say there's an urgent need to fight climate change. They made those pleas during what they called a funeral for a glacier ...

In many ways, Iceland is ground zero for climate change. In July, a funeral was held for one of its 300 glaciers — all of which are melting.

UNESCO World Heritage-designated Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, located 48 miles from the town of El Calafate, is regarded as one of the great marvels of Patagonia. Holding the world's third ...

Yes, we are memorializing glaciers now, and no, this is not a joke. The monument to Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, will be installed on August 18 in a public ceremony.