There were once six glaciers in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range of Venezuela. Five of them had vanished by 2011. Since then, the Humboldt Glacier, also known as La Corona, stood alone.

It also notes the deep spiritual and cultural connections that mountain-dwelling communities around the world have with mountains and glaciers, from India’s Hindu Kush Himalaya to Colombia’s Sierra ...

Truckee, California, a Sierra Nevada town near the Nevada-California border that receives an average annual snowfall of 206.6 inches, was named the third snowiest town in the country by The ...