As glaciers around the world continue to shrink and disappear, they are drawing more visitors than ever, not only for their beauty but for what they have come to represent in an era of climate change.

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

Perhaps it's ecological mourning, among other things, that's attracting a large number of tourists to melting glaciers. The increasing global warming is melting away the ice, but the landscape ...