Read more about the article Russian Cops Step Up Activities Against Crooks Stealing Mammoth Tusks Rrom Melting Permafrost
Photo shows mammoth tusks which were seized by the border guards from a cache in the Khabarovsk Territory in Russia, undated. The tusks are reportedly worth more than GBP 400,000. (Federal Security Service of Russia/Newsflash)

Russian Cops Step Up Activities Against Crooks Stealing Mammoth Tusks Rrom Melting Permafrost

Melting permafrost is yielding a bumper crop of mammoth tusks known as "ice ivory" which are being looted by treasure hunters in order to sell them abroad. At first glance,…

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Read more about the article Brit Hiker’s Remains Revealed On Alps By Melting Ice
Image shows police crews from the Canton Police Valais discover the remains of a 32-year-old Englishman, undated photo. He was reported missing on the Grand Combin mountain massif, in Valais, Switzerland, on Dec. 31, 1974. (Canton Police Valais/Newsflash)

Brit Hiker’s Remains Revealed On Alps By Melting Ice

Human remains found five months ago in the Swiss Alps have been identified as an English hiker who went missing nearly 50 years ago. The preserved skeleton of the 32-year-old…

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Read more about the article Swiss Glaciers Lose Half Their Volume In 85 Years, Study Shows
The Marjelenalp glacier in Switzerland, pictured in 2021. Scientists reconstructed the retreat of glaciers using historical photo material and came to the conclusion that the volume of the glaciers halved between 1931 and 2016, in Switzerland. (VAW, ETH Zurich/Newsflash)

Swiss Glaciers Lose Half Their Volume In 85 Years, Study Shows

Switzerland’s glaciers have decreased by around 50 per cent within 85 years - and are now melting at an even faster rate. Experts studied tens of thousands of period photographs…

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Read more about the article Melting Swiss Glacier Reveals Human Skulls And 50-Year-Old Plane Crash
Image shows the plain wreckage in the Swiss Alps in an undated photo. Switzerland's melting glaciers revealed the remains of a plane that crashed on Sunday, June 30, 1968. (Konkordiahuette/Newsflash)

Melting Swiss Glacier Reveals Human Skulls And 50-Year-Old Plane Crash

Global warming has revealed gruesome human skulls and parts of a crashed plane entombed beneath an Alpine glacier for more than 50 years. The Piper PA-28 Cherokee had not been…

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Read more about the article Have Billionaire’s Bones Emerged From Melting Glacier?
Karl-Erivan Haub pictured in a screen from undated video. He disappeared while mountaineering on April 7, 2018, near Zermatt, Switzerland. (Newsflash)

Have Billionaire’s Bones Emerged From Melting Glacier?

A melting Swiss glacier has revealed a human skeleton that could be the remains of a missing German billionaire who went out on a hike and never came back. Karl-Erivan…

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Read more about the article Unexpected Mercury Pollution From Greenlands Melting Ice Sheet Is Blowing Away Current Estimates For The Release Of The Toxin
Photo is a Greenland village.

Unexpected Mercury Pollution From Greenlands Melting Ice Sheet Is Blowing Away Current Estimates For The Release Of The Toxin

Melting ice in Greenland is releasing unexpectedly large amounts of mercury, forcing scientists to rethink their global budget for the release of this toxic element due to climate change. A…

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