Glaciers

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit deploys a helicopter crew to conduct overflights of Canadian vessel Manitoulin trapped in a frozen Lake Erie on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025 in Buffalo, N.Y. (U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit via AP)

Freighter remains stuck in the ice on a frozen Lake Erie

The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said.

The lake freighter Manitoulin is immobilized by thick ice in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall as it awaits the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay which is en route from Erie, Penn. to help loosen the vessel, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP)

A Canadian freighter gets trapped in ice on Lake Erie

In this photo handout provided by New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation, a rescued moose emerges from icy waters with the aid of forest rangers and police officers on Lake Abanakee in Indian Lake, Hamilton County, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation photo via AP)

First responders saved a moose that fell through lake ice in New York. Here’s how they did it

FILE - Chunks of ice float in a lake in front of Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024

Rescue teams work at the scene after an ice cave partially collapsed, at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, in southeastern Iceland, Monday, Aug, 26, 2024. (STOD2/ Vilhelm Gunnarsson via AP)

Police in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1 man, saying no one is missing

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Freighter remains stuck in the ice on a frozen Lake Erie

The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie since Wednesday. The ship wasn’t damaged, and its crew is safe, according to officials.

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Second child dies after falling through thin ice on an upstate New York lake

This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

Picturesque glacier releases water down a river in Alaska. More than 100 homes are damaged

FILE - A group of people take in the views of the Mendenhall Glacier on June 8, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

People pass by a damaged electric pole caused by flooding due to heavy rains near Chaman area, Pakistan, Thursday, April 18 2024. Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country's southwestern coast. Flash floods have also killed dozens of people in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Habib Ullah)

Pakistani province issues a flood alert and warns of a heavy loss of life from glacial melting

FILE - A group of hikers is on the way to the Jamtalferner Glacier near Galtuer, Austria, on Sept. 6, 2023. Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace, and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years as the process continues, experts said Friday April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Austria likely to be largely ice-free within 45 years as glaciers recede quickly, experts say

FILE - Tourists walk in front of the Tuco glacier in Huascaran National Park during a tour called the "Route of climate change" in Huaraz, Peru, Aug. 12, 2016. The South American country has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers became extinct due to climate change between 2016 and 2020, Peruvian scientists from the state agency that studies glaciers said Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru lost more than half of its glacier surface in just over half a century, scientists say

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Paris Peace Forum, in Paris, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. The Peace Forum is an annual event involving governments, NGOs and others seeking dialogue around global problems such as climate change, children's exposure to online violence, and threats to human rights. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool via AP)

France’s Macron says melting glaciers are ‘an unprecedented challenge for humanity’

Chile shuts down a popular glacier, sparking debate over climate change and adventure sports

United States' Tommy Ford speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom race, in Soelden, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. In the background the Rettenbach glacier. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)

Alpine skiing World Cup faces questions from climate activists over racing on glaciers in October

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visits Annapurna base camp, around 3,230 metres (10,600 feet) above sea level in Nepal, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Yunish Gurung)

UN chief visits tallest mountains in Nepal and expresses alarm over their melting glaciers

FILE - This Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. Dozens of Antarctica’s ice shelves, floating extensions of glaciers, showed significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021, a study published Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, found. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP, File)

Scientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice shelves. Trillions of tons of ice lost.

The Tiefenbachferner Glacier, part of glacier ski resort Soelden, with Wildspitze mountain is visible near Innsbruck, Austria, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

AP PHOTOS: As Alpine glaciers slowly disappear, new landscapes are appearing in their place

FILE - ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network Glamos, Matthias Huss, checks the thickness of the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

As thaw accelerates, Swiss glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in the past 2 years, experts say

A group walks to the Jamtalferner Glacier near Galtuer, Austria, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria’s melting glaciers are in their final decades

FILE - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, work at the Rhone glacier with his team near Goms, Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. A top glacier watcher has warned that a warm early summer and a heat wave could have caused severe glacier melt across Switzerland, threatening to make 2023 the second-worst year for ice loss after a record thaw last year. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Swiss glacier watcher warns recent heat wave threatens severe melt again this year after record 2022

Pope Francis flanked by Father Leonardo Sapienza, left, delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia this week to minister to one of the world's tiniest and newest Catholic communities, the first-ever visit by a Roman pontiff to the East Asian country. His trip is a historic meeting of East and West. Officially, there are only 1,450 Catholics in Mongolia and the Catholic Church has only had a sanctioned presence since 1992, after Mongolia shrugged off its Soviet-allied communist government. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope says a revised environmental encyclical will be released Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi

Body of an Austrian man believed to have died in 2001 found high in the Alps

FILE - A team member of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, passes the Rhone Glacier covered by sheets near Goms, Switzerland, on June 16, 2023. A new scientific study suggests the world should start preparing to protect the ecosystems that emerge from under the disappearing ice as warming planet is inevitably causing glaciers to melt. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Swiss glaciers under threat again as heat wave drives zero-temperature level to record altitude

FILE - A team member of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, passes the Rhone Glacier covered by sheets near Goms, Switzerland, on June 16, 2023. A new scientific study suggests the world should start preparing to protect the ecosystems that emerge from under the disappearing ice as warming planet is inevitably causing glaciers to melt. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

As glaciers melt, a new study seeks protection of ecosystems that emerge in their place

A home hangs over the edge of an eroded riverbank after part of the neighboring house fell into the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. The city of Juneau says the Mendenhall River flooded on Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska's capital city, and at least two buildings were destroyed. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire via AP)

After a glacial dam outburst destroyed homes in Alaska, a look at the risks of melting ice masses

Debris from a home that partially fell into the Mendenhall River sits on its banks in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday Aug. 6, 2023. The city of Juneau says the Mendenhall River flooded on Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska's capital city, and at least two buildings were destroyed. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire via AP)

Bursting ice dam in Alaska highlights risks of glacial flooding around the globe

FILE - Penguins walk on the shore of Bahia Almirantazgo in Antarctica on Jan. 27, 2015. A new study released Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, concludes that Antarctica is already being and will continue to be affected by more frequent and severe extreme weather events, a known byproduct of human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Even frozen Antarctica is being walloped by climate extremes, scientists find

A home hangs over the edge of an eroded riverbank after part of the neighboring house fell into the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. The city of Juneau says the Mendenhall River flooded on Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska's capital city, and at least two buildings were destroyed. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire via AP)

Glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks, destroys at least 2 buildings

Passengers disembark from a cruise ship that has docked on June 12, 2023, in downtown Juneau, Alaska. As the Mendenhall Glacier continues to recede, tourists are flooding into Juneau. A record number of cruise ship passengers are expected this year in the city of about 30,000 people. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedes

DNA tests confirm the body found on a Swiss glacier is of a German mountaineer missing since 1986

A cameraman walks up to the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

AP PHOTOS: To save Alpine glaciers, Swiss team monitors the escalating melt

FILE - The Sutlej River flows in the valley below the tall snowy peaks in the Kinnaur district of the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, India, March 13, 2023. A new report Tuesday, June 20, from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people living downstream of rivers that originate in the Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened by the end of this century due to rapid glacier melt if global warming is not controlled. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

Himalayan glaciers could lose 80% of their volume if global warming isn’t controlled, study finds

View of the village and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken on Tuesday, 9 May 2023, in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland. Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose and spill down in coming weeks. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threat

View of the village and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken on Tuesday, 9 May 2023, in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland. Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose and spill down in coming weeks. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

Swiss villagers told to evacuate over Alpine rockslide alert

This Aug. 16, 2010, image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows a piece of the Petermann Glacier that cracked in Greenland. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, May 8, 2023, found that tides and climate change are rapidly melting ice in the grounding line zone of the Petermann Glacier. That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory via AP)

Warming-stoked tides eating huge holes in Greenland glacier