By Alfredo Galarza, Alexander Villegas and Riham Alkousaa HUARAZ, Peru (Reuters) - In the high Andes of northern Peru, the ...

A German court on Monday resumes hearing a landmark case brought by a Peruvian farmer who argues that the German energy giant ...

Animal dung in the Andes Mountains in Peru is helping to transform soil recently uncovered by melting glaciers, according to ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature this week says the world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 231 billion tonnes annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 314 ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

A farmer and mountain guide is suing German energy firm RWE, due to the company’s share of global man-made greenhouse gas ...

A groundbreaking legal case in Germany involves Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya suing energy firm RWE over ...

adding that glacier loss would also impact fresh water supplies, particularly in central Asia and the central Andes. Glaciers are the second-largest contributor to global sea-level rise -- after ...

Andes and Himalayas. Researchers concluded that the world’s glaciers have lost about 5% of their ice since 2000 – and that they’re melting faster than ever. But Alaska takes the cake.

Chunks of ice float in a lake in front of Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 15, 2023. Credit: AP/Matthias Schrader Fifteen years ago, scientists were worried most about the Andes and the ...