Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice
Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites.
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2015
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Image: Greenland's Leidy Glacier
Located in the northwest corner of Greenland, Leidy Glacier is fed by ice from the Academy Glacier (upstream and inland). As Leidy approaches the sea, it is diverted around the tip of an island that separates the Olriks Fjord ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2015
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Image: First Mars orbital photo of 2015
This image was taken on 2 January just after midday GMT, and is one of the first of the Red Planet this year from the low-resolution Visual Monitoring Camera – the 'Mars Webcam' – on ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
Space Exploration
Jan 7, 2015
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ESA image: Tropical thaw: Quelccaya ice cap, Peru
This image features Peru's Quelccaya ice cap, the largest in the Tropics.
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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Identical twins begin polar trek
Identical twins - Hugo and Ross Turner – will begin a unique expedition across the polar ice cap of Greenland this week, during which researchers at King's will study how modern clothes, food and equipment protect the body.
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2014
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Study says Arctic melt season lengthening, ocean rapidly warming
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to the melt season is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation in some places to melt ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2014
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Charting Icelandic glacier dynamics
Mark Simons, professor of geophysics at Caltech, along with graduate student Brent Minchew, recently logged over 40 hours of flight time mapping the surface of Iceland's glaciers. Flying over two comparatively small ice caps, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2014
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Research shows temperature, not snowfall, driving tropical glacier size
Temperature, not snowfall, has been driving the fluctuating size of Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, whose dramatic shrinkage in recent decades has made it a symbol for global climate change, a Dartmouth-led study shows.
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2014
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Researchers find temperature feedback magnifying climate warming in Arctic
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has found that temperature feedback in the Arctic is causing more warming in that region than sea ice albedo. In their paper published in the journal ...
New study revises height of Aoraki/Mt Cook
(Phys.org) —The official height of New Zealand's tallest peak, Aoraki/Mt Cook, is set to fall by 30 metres, following new measurements by University of Otago researchers.
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2014
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