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…
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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…
Salmon can colonize newly created streams, but face many other challenges from climate change. Credit: Freshwaters Illustrated Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western…
A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began sticking more persistently to their beds, triggering cycles of longer ice ages. Here, ice…
[embedded content] Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming…
Researchers’ ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti in 2015. Two ice cores extracted from this area preserved a continuous one-thousand-year record of European climate…
October 12, 1987 October 9, 2021 As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its…
Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the…
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge Researchers map the geothermal heat flow in West Antarctica; a new potential weak spot in the ice sheet’s stability is…
Study sheds light on the future of the massive Thwaites Glacier. The world’s largest ice sheets may be in less danger of sudden collapse than…
Pine Island Glacier ends in an ice shelf that floats in the Amundsen Sea. These crevasses are near the grounding line, where the glacier makes…
Gulf of Alaska. Using information from ESA’s CryoSat mission, new research shows that between 2010 and 2019, the Gulf of Alaska lost 76 Gt of…
New research from Florida State University shows that concentrations of the toxic element mercury in rivers and fjords connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet are…
Researchers measure the topography of an exposed glacier bed at Castleguard Glacier in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada. Credit: Photo by Keith Williams, contributed…