Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how ...

The area is home to thousands of glaciers that are melting at an alarming rate in Central Asia, already hard-hit by climate change. A glaciologist, Omarova is recording that process—worried ...

That’s huge, yet not as big as it used to be. “Globally, most glaciers are melting and thinning and retreating much faster now than they were, say, prior to about the year 2000,” Sass said.

Greenland's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, and scientists say this will have consequences in Europe as well. The ...

The area is home to thousands of glaciers that are melting at an alarming rate in Central Asia, already hard-hit by climate change. A glaciologist, Omarova is recording that process -- worried about ...

The melting of thousands of glaciers is a major threat to people in the landlocked region that already suffers from a shortage of water. Acting as water towers, glaciers are crucial to the region ...

Researchers in Kyrgyzstan are warning that glaciers in Central Asia are melting at an unprecedented rate and the water they ...