Tag: glacier
Northern Glaciers are Retreating from the Water – ENN
Most marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere are shrinking; some have completely left the water. Across the Northern Hemisphere, more than 1,700 glaciers ultimately dip…
Sea ice that slowed the flow of Antarctic glaciers abruptly shatters in three days
In just three days in late January, a mass of ice the size of Philadelphia fragmented from the Larsen-B embayment on the Antarctic Peninsula…
Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes
In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska’s Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before…
Glaciers accelerate in the Getz region of West Antarctica
Glaciers in West Antarctica are moving more quickly from land into the ocean, contributing to rising global sea levels. A 25-year record of satellite observations…
Warming Seas Are Accelerating Greenland’s Glacier Retreat
Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of…
Climate activists gathered at Trient glacier mourn Switzerland’s receding ice
Climate activists gathered at Switzerland’s Trient glacier on Sunday to urge authorities to take action to reduce CO2 emissions and draw attention to the disappearance…
Satellite images show rapid growth of glacial lakes worldwide
Glacial lakes have grown rapidly around the world in recent decades, according to satellite images that reveal the impact of increased meltwater draining off retreating…
Antarctica ice shelves vulnerable to meltwater that could cut ice ’like a knife,’ study finds
Meltwater could undermine the walls of ice holding back Antarctica’s glaciers, scientists reported on Wednesday, a finding that underscores concern about the potential for a…
Mont Blanc’s melting glacier yields time capsule of Indian history
Retreating French ice leaves behind newspapers proclaiming Indira Gandhi’s rise to PM, probably from 1966 plane crash The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps…
Greenland ice sheet meltwater can flow in winter, too
Liquid meltwater can sometimes flow deep below the Greenland Ice Sheet in winter, not just in the summer, according to CIRES-led work published in the…
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