Mysterious Arc Spans Greenland Fjord – Scientists Weigh In on Theories
Scientists have some ideas about what might have caused a thin arc that spanned a fjord in Western Greenland. In summer, the fjords around Greenland…
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Elevated Beauty: Peru’s Tropical Glaciers and Majestic Rainbow Mountains
The icy landscape high in the Andes is dotted with colorful glacial lakes and weathered rock. While in orbit over the Andes Mountains in southern…
Glacier Loss Day Alert: Unprecedented Melt Rates Shatter Records
In the summer of 2022, one of Tyrol’s most expansive glaciers experienced its most significant loss of mass on record. Last year, the Hintereisferner in…
Unusual Late-Season Melting on Humboldt Glacier
Unusual late-season melting in Greenland turned the glacier’s surface into a mishmash of ice, firn, melt, and dirt. Every year from around May to early…
Why Are Tidewater Glaciers Retreating at Unprecedented Rates? Scientists Discover New Clue
Research from Oregon State University has discovered a potential reason for the rapid retreat of sea-terminating glaciers: the bursting of tiny, pressurized bubbles in underwater…
Mars’ Gullies: How Axial Tilt and Ice Sculpted the Martian Landscape
Using climate simulations, researchers suggest Mars’ gullies could have formed from melting water ice during periods of high axial tilt, offering a fresh perspective on…
Melting Mysteries on Mars: Gullies May Have Formed by Recent Periods of Liquid Meltwater
In a new study, scientists how gullies on the slopes of Martian craters could have formed by on-and-off periods of meltwater from ice on and…
The Shrinking Giant: A 40-Year Look at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier
Mendenhall Glacier is a popular tourist destination near Juneau, but each year there is less of it to see. Each year, hundreds of thousands of…
Antarctica’s Alarm Bells: Scientists Warn of Escalating Extreme Events
Researchers suggest that Antarctica will almost certainly experience more frequent and intense extreme events, such as ocean heatwaves and ice loss. As efforts intensify to…
Summer Breakout: Rapid Disintegration of Sea Ice in Northeast Greenland
Seasonal warmth led to the rapid disintegration of sea ice near the junction of two large outlet glaciers. Summer can be harsh on the planet’s…
Arctic’s Melting Glaciers Reveal Hidden Methane Time Bomb
Shrinking Arctic glaciers are uncovering bubbling groundwater springs that release large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a study in Nature Geoscience….
Scientists Have Mapped the Ground Beneath Antarctica’s Most Vulnerable Glacier for the First Time
For the first time, a team including an expert from Swansea has charted the ground beneath Antarctica’s most at-risk glacier, providing vital insights into its…
Cosmic Clockwork: The Outer Space Origin of Ice Age Cycles
A team of researchers, including climatologists and an astronomer, has utilized an enhanced computer model to recreate the ice age cycles that occurred between 1.6…
Tidal Surprises: Researchers Unravel the Secret Behind Greenland’s Ice Meltdown
Study suggests extent of future sea level rise could be vastly underestimated. New research has found that the grounding line of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier shifts…
CryoSat Exposes Alarming Glacier Ice Loss Across the Globe
Scientists have used data from ESA’s CryoSat satellite to reveal that global glaciers shrunk by 2%, losing 2720 Gigatonnes of ice from 2010 to 2020,…
Unprecedented Retreat – Once Stable Glacier Now Rapidly Receding at an Alarming Rate
A recent study has revealed that the rising temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean are putting previously stable glaciers at risk. According to a recent study,…
Hidden Glacier Meltdown: Satellites Miss Underwater Ice Loss in Himalayas
The mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalayas has been significantly underestimated due to satellite limitations, with major implications for projections of glacier…
Severely Underestimated: Study Reveals Hidden Ice Melt in Himalayas
Revealing “invisible” glacier loss underwater Recent research shows that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the Himalayas has been severely underestimated, due to the…
