glacier

The sea level is rising at a record pace, driven by warming oceans and glacier melt, according to a UN report.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

There were multiple factors involved in that event, which was triggered when a large area of bedrock and glacier ice collapsed.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

According to the World Weather Attribution group, the massive rock-and-ice collapse was shaped by long-term warming, glacier retreat and geological instability.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

"There is a profound unfairness in this," says Marie Šabacká, a Czech glacier ecologist who travelled to Puncak Jaya last March in a bid to be among the last scientists to study Papua's "eternal snow".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

From the lakeshore looking up southward at the hills I saw a light I knew: the blink, the white suffusion of the sky, the glare of the glacier lying high beyond.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Switzerland’s glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice in the past year, typically losing between 8 and 13 feet, after a winter of meager snowfall and summer heatwaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

That left glaciers vulnerable to melting even faster in subsequent heatwaves.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Scientists estimate that Swiss glaciers released 2.2 trillion litres of meltwater between July and September.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The United Nations on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution demanding stronger action on rising sea levels, an existential threat for low-lying island nations driven by ocean warming and melting ice sheets and glaciers.

From Barron's

And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut