As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

There were once six glaciers in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range of Venezuela. Five of them had vanished by 2011. Since then, the Humboldt Glacier, also known as La Corona, stood alone.

Venezuela, once home to six glaciers, now has none after the last remaining one was recently classified as being too small to qualify. Why it matters: Venezuela is the first country in the ...

Colombia and Ecuador are home to tropical glaciers, of which there are few left on the planet. These glaciers, located near ...

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICC) announced on X (formerly Twitter) that Venezuela’s only remaining glacier, the Humboldt, or La Corona, in the Andes, is now “too small to ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that a second country has now lost all of its glaciers. Following Slovenia in Europe, Venezuela in South America has now joined this ...