Large rock hills deep below glaciers can cause huge channels on the ice surface – even if the hills are buried under two kilometres of ice.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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Jakobshavn Isbræ (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at a speed that appears to be the fastest ever recorded. Researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2014
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The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2021
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The landform known as a drumlin, created when the ice advanced during the Ice Age, can also be produced by today's glaciers. This discovery, made by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has just been published ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2010
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A University of Delaware researcher reports that an "ice island" four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2010
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A trio of researchers at the University of Lyon, has learned via lab experimentation how glacier tables are formed. Marceau Hénot, Nicolas Plihon and Nicolas Taberlet have published their findings in Physical Review Letters.
Parts of Earth's ice sheets that could lift global oceans by meters will likely crumble with another half degree Celsius of warming, and are fragile in ways not previously understood, according to new research.
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Feb 16, 2023
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In a new paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a groundbreaking new analysis of ...
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2021
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Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2019
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The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2021
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