Studying Greenland’s Ice to Understand Climate Change
Earlier this year, Lucas Jackson, a photographer with Reuters, joined a team of scientists affiliated with a NASA project named Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and...
Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say
Two Antarctic glaciers that have long kept scientists awake at night are breaking free from the restraints that have hemmed them in, increasing the threat...
Melting Glaciers Are Filling Unstable Lakes. And They’re Growing.
Nearly freezing and often an otherworldly shade of blue, glacial lakes form as glaciers melt and retreat. These lakes are a source of drinking and...
Greenland Ice Sheet Reached Tipping Point 20 Years Ago, New Study Finds
At the turn of the 21st century, unbeknownst to the world, the Greenland ice sheet likely entered a state of sustained mass loss that will...
Koni Steffen’s Moving Message from Greenland
Some of you likely heard about Konrad “Koni” Steffen’s tragic death at his research station on the Greenland Ice Sheet last week. It received global...
Canada’s Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses
The Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the past 30 years.
Stunning Forecast: A Century of Ice Loss for Nearly 100,000 Glaciers
The ice in one of the world’s highest concentrations of non-polar glaciers could see significant melting before the end of the century, potentially affecting sea...
Climate change hits back, Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier
Mine 7 is located some 15 kilometers southeast of Longyearbyen and is the only remaining Norwegian operated coal mine on the Arctic archipelago. The mine...