Snow in the Rockies now silently carries toxic metals from mines, revealing long-range pollution by winter storms.

The Alps, a majestic mountain range stretching across eight countries in Europe, is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes ...

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice ... their transformation ...

Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the landscape, with potentially hazardous impacts.

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions ... common as frozen ground known as permafrost thaws, robbing mountain landscapes of the cryospheric glue that formerly held them together.

"If they don't have that, they will just melt away ... For 25 years mountain guide Charles Kibaki Muchir has seen the glacier's transformation from a landscape of snow and ice to brown rock.

As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice loss has repercussions for climate and water cycles. This in turn has significant impacts on landscapes ... Winter snow supplies new mass to glaciers ...