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Glaciers have survived through a delicate balance of gain and loss. A new study shows just how much the scale has tipped. Drone light dramatically illuminates the Pastoruri Glacier in Cordillera ...

In Antarctica, a glacier the size of Florida is breaking apart faster than anyone expected. If it collapses, it could raise global sea levels by up to eight feet — flooding coastal cities and ...

AP photo - Owner Roscoe Black stands outside the nearly completed St. Mary Lodge in this 2001 photo. The lodge that stands next to Glacier National Park, and once hosted actor Ronald Reagan, is for ...