While glaciers that cover more than five square kilometers have lost 12 of their mass, those under one square kilometer have lost 38 percent. Applying the overall ratio of mass lost to area covered, this means that the smallest (and most numerous) Himalayan glaciers lost up to 57 of their mass between 1960 and 2004.

In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global sea level rise.

This is pitched on a glacier at 17,500 feet.

Oceans come and go. Mountains come and go. Glaciers come and go.

The Himalayan glaciers have not stopped losing mass, although they are losing it at a somewhat slower rate than before. Evidence collected on 466 glaciers by the Indian Space Applications Center from 1962 to 2004 shows a 21 loss of glacier area and a 30.8 of glacier volume.

And there's a volcano behind, which has glaciers at the very top.

Ice and Glaciers

And we wanted to find out and we see all kinds of glacial features on it.

The one glacier up in Greenland that puts more ice into the global ocean than all the other glaciers in the northern hemisphere combined is the Ilulissat Glacier.

The glacier's gone all the way up the mountain and left in its place this big lake.

Examples of other effects include diminishing freshwater supply in many regions, due to extended droughts and as a result of the melting of high altitude glaciers and the decrease in snow cover in mountain areas.

I spent time skiing across the sea ice for weeks at a time in the high Arctic.

They actually have these buses that drive up and over the lateral moraine and drop people off on the surface of the glacier.

And once again, it's this invitation that asks people to lay down on the glacier and give it a hug.

That's the retreat of this glacier.

We're inundated with news all the time that the sea ice is disappearing and it's at its lowest level.

Brown Glacier, Heard Island, had retreated by 50 metres over three years, with the lower slopes of the glacier having lost as much as 11 metres in thickness, while Collins Glacier, King George Island, retreated by some 200 metres between 1987 and 2005.

One of my favorite glaciers, the Sólheimajökull.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

As the Arctic melts The rush to exploit its resources is starting Nobody will listen to her But they will listen to you

The glaciers are actually leaving us.

We might wind up there yet, too, chasing Fry over the old glacier!

The latest IPCC report describes our current predicament with disturbing clarity global temperatures are climbing, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe.

Like Al Gore told you, two billion people live on the water from the glacier of Himalaya.

They give birth inside the ice, and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the ice.

And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human glacier relations.

Experts attending the event warned that little was being done to monitor the state of glaciers in the Himalayas, which were melting due to global warming and thereby increasing the risk of major floods.

We have reason to be afraid of melting ice caps.

During both flights a near real time analysis was carried out over glaciers to determine the accumulation and ablation areas and estimate glacier mass balance, important parameters for climate research and hydrology.

This is a piece of multi year ice that's 12 years old.

Well, it's been calculated a few degrees' rise in the earth's temperature would melt the polar ice caps.

The scenery, mountains, beautiful lakes.

There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Anyway, last year, I heard about the Himalayas and the melting of the and the melting of the glaciers because of climate change.

According to the report, climate models forecasted the best estimate value of sea level rise to be about 50 cm over the next century (with a range of 13 to 94 cm), taking into account water expansion attributable to heating and glacial and polar melting.

I have swum in front of glaciers which have retreated so much.

Glaciers are very important for the life on earth.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, forcing glaciers and Arctic ice to retreat.

And this one's particularly interesting, because, of all the glaciers in North America, it receives the highest volume of human traffic in a year.

We know that the sea level rose by roughly 100 meters during the last 12,000 years. This rise was clearly connected with the melting of the continental ice sheets at the end of the last ice age that is, it had nothing to do with human activities.

The roller coaster, which was built in 1938, does not include seat belts because it's not a stimulating one. The maximum height of the roller coaster is ten meters.

And all the way along the glacier we saw these big pools of melting ice.