The frozen water is present in different forms (snow, sea ice, lake and river ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs and frozen ground) altogether within the climate system is called as the 'Cryosphere'.

More than 100 scientists from 30 countries released a special report examining climate change impacts on the oceans and a less familiar but critically important part of the Earth: the cryosphere. Ice ...

Everything on our planet -- the land, the water, the air, people -- is connected by the various chemical, physical and biological processes that make up what we call the Earth system. One of the key ...

Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder More than 100 scientists from 30 countries released a special report examining climate ...

First global assessment of the extent of snow and ice cover on Earth's surface--a critical factor cooling the planet through reflected sunlight--and its response to warming temperatures ...

The current global climate warming is unprecedented and extensively accelerated. This is partly evidenced by the months of June, July, and August (considered meteorological summer in the Northern ...

The Altai Mountains are located in the eastern hinterland of Central Asia, bordering Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. Chinese Altai Mountains, located in the north of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous ...