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Dramatic Iceberg Breakup in Antarctica Has Scientists Even More Worried

Two months ago, a giant iceberg snapped off West Antarctica’s imperiled Pine Island Glacier. Scientists have been tracking the iceberg via satellites, and they’ve witnessed something rather bizarre. Very soon after calving, the ‘berg began shattering into lots of smaller pieces. Some are interpreting this at yet another sign that the ice shelf buttressing Pine…

Earther Maddie Stone Dec 5

Two NASA Science Planes Are Capturing Some Glorious Images of Antarctica

Every year, NASA’s Operation Icebridge plumbs the wonders and woes of the ice at both poles, and 2017 is no different. Icebridge’s Antarctic field mission kicked off about a month ago, and satellites and planes are hard at work monitoring glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice. The purpose of the project, which kicked off in…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Nov 23

NASA Figured Out Exactly Which Glaciers Will Drown Your City When They Melt

Nearly all the ice on Earth is in some state of meltdown. As it spills into the ocean, it raises sea levels. But if you’re curious to know exactly which glaciers are going to drown your corner of the planet, NASA’s got some answers. A new study published in Science Advances this week provides a…

Earther Brian Kahn Nov 18

Algae Are Making Greenland Darker, and That’s Probably a Bad Thing

The Greenland ice sheet is getting darker, and that’s bad news for the Arctic thermostat, since darker surfaces absorb more heat. Now, a pair of scientists have concluded that in at least one section of Greenland, tiny algae play an outsized role in giving the ice its surprising shade. Every summer, a dark area appears…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Nov 9

Greenland’s Bedrock Is Unexpectedly Deep, Which Is Really Bad for Ice Melt

It’s well known that Greenland contains a ton of frozen water—enough to raise sea levels by nearly 25 feet were it all to melt. Unfortunately, new research suggests melting may occur faster than we thought as the Earth warms, because of how Greenland’s glaciers are anchored to bedrock. A study published this week in Geophysical…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Nov 2

Is Antarctica’s Scarred Seafloor a Harbinger of Trouble to Come?

The Earth contains hints about its past everywhere. And as we hurtle toward a much warmer future, those clues can tell us a lot about what we face. In Antarctica, that’s never been more important. The glaciers tumbling down from West Antarctica’s ice sheet hold back a massive amount of ice that could raise sea…

Earther Brian Kahn Oct 27

This Is What Half a Year For One of Greenland’s Most Imperiled Glaciers Looks Like

Satellites have changed how we see the world. That includes being able to watch climate change overrun everything beautiful in agonizing detail. Behold, the Petermann Glacier, a wending trail of ice that descends from Greenland’s ice sheet down to an icy tongue sticking out over a fjord on the island’s northwest edge. The animation above,…

Earther Brian Kahn Oct 10

Need a Reminder That All the Glaciers Are Melting? There’s a Twitter Bot for That

Climate change and ice, they do not mix. I know it. You know it. And now there’s a Twitter bot here to continually remind you of the existential crisis that rising temperatures pose to glaciers. Conceived by Aslak Grinsted, a climate scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute’s Center for Ice and Climate, Daily Glacier Bot…

Earther Brian Kahn Oct 6

New Sunlit Images of Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Are Breathtakingly Beautiful

When a trillion ton iceberg snapped off the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf in July, the entire world spent a few days geeking out over stunning satellite imagery of Earth’s frozen continent. But those who’ve stuck with the Delaware-sized iceberg, now called A68, on its slow journey into the Weddell Sea, know that the…

Earther Maddie Stone Oct 2

What Caused an Entire Yukon River to Vanish Almost Overnight?

Last summer, a team of geologists set out on an expedition to study Slims River in the Yukon, but when they got there, the once majestic river was nowhere to be seen. The scientists attribute the missing river to a retreating glacier, which caused a dramatic shift in the direction of water flow. It’s yet…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Apr 18

Skiing Through These Ice Caves on a Glacier Looks Majestic

Watching Sam Favret ski through Mer de Glace makes me think that there probably aren’t too many places in the world that are more fun to ski than that beautiful valley glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif in the French Alps. There are all these narrow pathways to zip through with huge ice walls surrounding you,…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 16

Scientists Think They Know What Caused That Terrifying Tibetan Avalanche

Over the summer, two enormous avalanches struck the Aru Glacier in Tibet back-to-back. Now, after several months of careful study, scientists think they’ve identified the cause of the first ice slide, which claimed the lives of nine nomadic herders. You’ll be shocked to hear it has to do with climate change. When over 70 million…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Dec 9

Huge Cracks In the West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Signal Its Collapse

Last year, a 225 square-mile chunk of West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier broke off and tumbled into the sea. Now, Earth scientists at Ohio State University have pinpointed the root cause of the iceberg calving event: a crack that started deep below ground and 20 miles inland. It’s like nothing scientists have witnessed in West…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Nov 28

An Unusually Large Iceberg Broke Off a Glacier and Nobody Noticed

This past summer, a massive chunk of ice slipped away from a glacier in British Columbia, but no one was there to notice. Using satellite images, a scientist from NASA has now spotted the unusually large iceberg—and he suspects it’s the largest ever seen in North America. Glaciologist Mauri Pelto noticed the iceberg while analyzing…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Oct 13

Enjoy a Gloriously Detailed Look at the Arctic Before It Melts Away

A series of beautiful digital terrain maps, created by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), are immortalizing something that might soon be lost: the magnificent, ice-carved landscapes of the Arctic. These recently unveiled topographic maps of Alaska are the first publicly-released products from the ArcticDEM project, a White House-mandated…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 8

Greenland Is Building the Perfect Place to Watch the World End

A stunning structure built 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle will serve as a crucial research center for glaciologists. But perhaps more importantly, it will be a place where humans can travel to see the real-time impact of climate change. The Illulissat Icefjord is a UNESCO-protected site on Greenland’s west coast that’s known for both…

Climate Change Alissa Walker Jul 6

Watch a Drone Fly Into the Crevasse of a Glacier

Here’s some really cool footage from Flyability that shows a drone exploring a crevasse into the Zermatt Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Flyability says that the ice caves were previously inaccessible to other drones but they managed to get their UAV down the narrow crack because of its protective cage. It’s just really cool to…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 3

Miami’s Already Drowning Due to Sea Level Rise

At the Art Basel spectacle in Miami last week, heavy rains swamped the parties, forcing fairgoers to prance through the streets in soggy stilettos. It wasn’t a freak occurrence. It was a peek at the future. In a frightening New Yorker article, Elizabeth Kolbert tours the city with Hal Wanless, a geologist at the University…

Climate Change Alissa Walker Dec 15

You Can Barely Even See Yosemite’s Largest Glacier Anymore

Lyell Glacier was Yosemite’s National Park’s largest glacier. In 1883, park officials took a photograph of the ice giant. This year, NASA’s climate team recreated that photo with the glacier in its current state. The comparison is stunning. Lyell Glacier is not only the largest in Yosemite, it’s also the second largest in the Sierra…

Climate Change Ria Misra Dec 4

Glacial Research Captured a Moment of Pure Tranquility in this National Park

Research cameras pointed at glaciers are inevitably bearers of depressing news, tracking the crumble of ice rotting over the years. Yet soft moonlight and misty mountains framing blue ice transform this datapoint into a moment of pure beauty. About 51% of Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska is covered in ice, and the rest bares…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 11

Dramatic Iceberg Breakup in Antarctica Has Scientists Even More Worried

Two NASA Science Planes Are Capturing Some Glorious Images of Antarctica

NASA Figured Out Exactly Which Glaciers Will Drown Your City When They Melt

Algae Are Making Greenland Darker, and That’s Probably a Bad Thing

Greenland’s Bedrock Is Unexpectedly Deep, Which Is Really Bad for Ice Melt

Is Antarctica’s Scarred Seafloor a Harbinger of Trouble to Come?

This Is What Half a Year For One of Greenland’s Most Imperiled Glaciers Looks Like

Need a Reminder That All the Glaciers Are Melting? There’s a Twitter Bot for That

New Sunlit Images of Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Are Breathtakingly Beautiful

What Caused an Entire Yukon River to Vanish Almost Overnight?

Skiing Through These Ice Caves on a Glacier Looks Majestic

Scientists Think They Know What Caused That Terrifying Tibetan Avalanche

Huge Cracks In the West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Signal Its Collapse

An Unusually Large Iceberg Broke Off a Glacier and Nobody Noticed

Enjoy a Gloriously Detailed Look at the Arctic Before It Melts Away

Greenland Is Building the Perfect Place to Watch the World End

Watch a Drone Fly Into the Crevasse of a Glacier

Miami’s Already Drowning Due to Sea Level Rise

You Can Barely Even See Yosemite’s Largest Glacier Anymore

Glacial Research Captured a Moment of Pure Tranquility in this National Park

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