In the remote reaches of Antarctica lies the Pine Island Glacier, a rapidly melting ice ... which is comparable to almost 80 miles per hour. “This is to our knowledge the fastest rift-opening ...

Measuring some 120 kilometers (75 miles) across, this vast river of ice happens to be one of the largest glaciers on Earth. It's sometimes known as the 'Doomsday Glacier', because its demise would ...

He was the last of a community legacy that made a living off the Reschreiter glacier, whose ice was mostly used for refrigeration before electricity was widespread in their stretch of the Andes.

But satellite monitoring indicates this glacier is melting at an accelerating rate. In the 1990s it was losing just over 10 billion tonnes of ice a year. Today, it's more like 80 billion tonnes.

Scientists say the glacier has lost at least 80% of its volume just since 2006, a trend accelerated by rising global temperatures. As mourners gathered in the Swiss Alps, youth activists and world ...