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…
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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…
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…