Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast to see towering ice formations hanging over the water.  But that ice is melting. And fast.  A new report published this week in the journal Nature examines the trend here and in 18 other regions across the globe,

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.

Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and drive sea levels higher.

Leading scientists are warning that the world's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate far faster than had ever previously been anticipated.