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The Imja glacial lake in Nepal

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15 million people live in possible flood path for melting glaciers

Glacial lakes can cause flooding if an ice or rock dam holding back the water fails, putting an estimated 15 million people at risk, an analysis has found

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Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier

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Base of the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than we thought

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Skaftafell glacier, Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland.; Shutterstock ID 1070276435; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Cold blob in Atlantic may be slowing ice loss from Iceland’s glaciers

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Glacier in the Fitz Roy Mountain Range, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina.

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Thin glaciers suggest Andes faces 'peak water' sooner than thought

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Bloomstrandbreen 1936 (top) and 2009

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Svalbard glacier ice loss projected to roughly double by 2100

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Ice memory: What ice cores tell us about Earth’s environmental history

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Ice memory: What ice cores tell us about Earth’s environmental history

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photographic memory

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Did you know? Fewer than 100 people have a photographic memory

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I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life

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I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life

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Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

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Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

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Glacier

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Eastern Alps may have been ice-free in the time of Ötzi the Iceman

Ice cores from a glacier just 12 kilometres from the place the mummified Ötzi the Iceman was found in 1991 suggest that it formed just before or even within his lifetime

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Life

The curious case of the “glacier mice” that seem to dance on ice

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Environment

2020 in review: Extreme weather seen around the world as climate warms

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Humans

People have built a glacier in the desert using a huge tower of ice

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Antarctica's doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?

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