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…
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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…
Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting…
Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge AWI experts…
Ice flow velocities for Andean glaciers. Credit: © Romain Millan, Jean-Baptiste Barré / CNRS / IGE – Map data : Mapbox / OpenStreetMap / Maxar…
Using data on glacier velocity, South America’s tropical Andes mountains were found to have up to 23% less ice and freshwater availability. Darker colors overlayed…
This image of Batura Glacier, in the upper Hunza Valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, was captured on August 13, 2021, by the Copernicus…
Salmon can colonize newly created streams, but face many other challenges from climate change. Credit: Freshwaters Illustrated A study led by Simon Fraser University researchers…
Mariusz Potocki and Sherpa team drilling the highest ice core ever recovered at 8020m elevation with the summit of Mount Everest in the background. Credit:…
The world’s first inventory of subglacial lakes has been compiled by an international team led by the University of Sheffield, providing a comprehensive directory of…
Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image of Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Greenland This false-color image shows visible changes on the ground and sea surface between three different acquisition dates.…
Yuzhen Yan in Antarctica in December 2015. Credit: Yuzhen Yan Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years. An unknown…
Glaciers like Antarctica’s Byrd Glacier are showing cracks and movement. Credit: United States Geological Survey The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice…
Simulated mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1990 until 3000 expressed as sea-level contribution: Fourteen experiments for the unabated warming pathway (RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5),…
Research team surveying the seafloor near Thwaites Glacier. Credit: Alex Mazur / British Antarctic Survey Ice sheet’s demise poses the biggest threat for sea-level rise…