Glaciers

Latest about glaciers

A researcher samples snow covered with "glacier blood."

'Glacier blood' could be key to understanding impacts of climate change

By Nicoletta Lanese published

An expedition to the French Alps is revealing the biology of "glacier blood" and how it is impacted by climate change.

Climate change
Klinaklini Glacier is the largest glacier of Western Canada

Study of nearly every glacier on Earth shows ice loss is speeding up

By Nicoletta Lanese published

A new study assessed more than 200,000 glaciers around the world.

Climate change
NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft spies the Upper Baffin Bay coast on March 27, 2017, above Greenland.

Greenland ice melt is changing the shape of its coastline

By Stephanie Pappas published

Greenland's coastline is being altered by ice melt, potentially affecting predictions of what happens to the ice sheet next.

Climate change
Cascade, Barry and Coxe glaciers, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented 'mega-tsunami,' scientists warn

By Peter Dockrill published

Tsunami
This is what the globe would look like 170 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

Visit NYC in 750 million B.C. with this epic interactive map

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

A new interactive map visualizes how Earth's continents evolved from about 750 million years ago to today.

Geology
Icebergs near Greenland form from ice that has broken off--or calved--from glaciers on the island.

Nothing will stop Greenland's ice sheet from shrinking now

By Stephanie Pappas published

If humans stopped heating up the climate instantly, Greenland's ice sheet would keep shrinking.

Climate change
The Ellesmere ice caps are gone

Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery shows

By Brandon Specktor published

New NASA imagery shows that the St. Patrick bay ice caps have vanished from Arctic Canada, two years sooner than scientists predicted

Climate change
Algae have turned the Presena glacier in Italy a pretty pink.

Pink 'watermelon snow' threatens major Italian glacier

By Rafi Letzter published

The high Presena glacier has turned pink in a major bloom of dangerous, ice-melting algae.

Climate change
Mitten found at Lendbreen, made from different pieces of woven fabric. Radiocarbon-dated to the ninth century.

Viking 'treasure' of rare artifacts revealed on a long-lost mountain trail

By Mindy Weisberger published

Melting ice revealed a long-lost trail in Norway that was strewn with objects dating to the Viking Age.

Vikings
Antarctica's Eagle Island on Feb. 4 and Feb. 13, 2020.

See record-high temperatures strip Antarctica of huge amounts of ice

By Brandon Specktor published

Antarctica saw two record-high temperatures set between Feb. 6 and Feb.9, and that took a huge toll on the continent's ice, as seen in NASA images.

Antarctica
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