A Relict Glacier near Mars’ Equator. (NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite). Credit: Pascal Lee The preservation of water ice at shallow depths…
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Aerial photographs of the Antarctic Peninsula’s glaciers. Credit: Dr. Anna E. Hogg, University of Leeds According to researchers, glaciers – massive blocks of moving ice…
Melting in cracks and crevasses where ice enters the ocean at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is faster than scientists thought. Credit: NASA Data come from an…
The icefin robot under the ice near McMurdo research station, operated by the US Antarctic Program. Credit: Rob Robbins USAP Results provide close-up view of…
Doomsday Glacier Is “In Trouble” – Surprising Results From Underwater Robot Close-Up View of Melting
The icefin robot under the ice near McMurdo research station, operated by the US Antarctic Program. Credit: Rob Robbins USAP New data from an international…
Research ship the Nathaniel B Palmer at the Thwaites Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Credit: Aleksandra Mazur A process that can contribute to the melting of…
Professor David Rounce, an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, spearheaded an international effort to create new projections for glacier mass loss over the…
Model of the river system. Credit: Dow et al. 2022 An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice,…
River of meltwater on the Zachariae Glacier, northeast Greenland. Credit: Shfaqat Abbas Khan, DTU Space A new study combined GPS, satellite data, and numerical modeling.…
Satellite image of Lago Greve (Greve Lake), Chile, and surrounding landmarks. The area which turned from lake to land surface from 8 April to 1st…
Researchers have identified an additional process that could have a significant effect on an ice sheet’s future: thawing of the bed, where the ice sheet…
The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers have been retreating at an accelerated pace and have already increased global sea levels. A study finds that two…
A crack in Petermann Ice Shelf was observed by an international team of scientists during the Oden expedition in 2019. These cracks can eventually grow…
Lead author Chloe Gustafson and mountaineer Meghan Seifert install geophysical instruments to measure groundwater below West Antarctica’s Whillans Ice Stream. Credit: Kerry Key/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory…
Peyto Glacier, 1999-2021. Scientists have been observing Peyto Glacier in Alberta since the 1960s. Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada is among the…
Calving front of the Upsala Glacier in Argentina. This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during the last decades — from…
February 24, 2022 March 23, 2022 In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd…
The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable. It is relatively common for…
Remnants of the Larsen-B ice shelf, filled in with seasonal ice in January 2016. Until January 2022, sea ice helped to buttress the nearby glaciers,…
The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a…