Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes
In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska's Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before racing out to sea.
In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska's Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before racing out to sea.
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As the climate warms and glaciers retreat, the landscape around them is transforming. With the recession of ice, areas that were formerly frozen over can now sustain plant life. A new paper published by scientists from Syracuse, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2021
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In the Pacific Northwest, several species of salmon are in danger of extinction. The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office has released a report on the state of salmon populations in the state's watersheds—and ...
Ecology
Feb 11, 2021
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The behavior of glaciers around Mount Everest over the last six decades is now revealed in research published today in the multidisciplinary journal One Earth.
Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2020
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Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated significantly over the past two decades, transforming the shape of the ice sheet edge and therefore coastal Greenland, according to scientific research led by Twila Moon, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2020
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A new study has demonstrated that irrigation in parts of high mountain Asia is having profound effects on some of the region's glaciers. In contrast to glaciers worldwide that are shrinking dramatically from global warming, ...
Environment
Oct 15, 2020
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This series of four Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured between 29 June and 24 July 2020, shows a segment of the largest ice shelf in the Arctic break up and shatter into a flotilla of small icebergs totalling an area of ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2020
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Glaciers around the world are melting—and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2020
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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are eavesdropping on an Arctic glacier in the name of science. In a new study, scientists Oskar Glowacki and Grant Deane describe a method of measuring glacier mass loss ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2020
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Using the latest satellite technology from the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists from the University of Bristol have been tracking patterns of mass loss from Pine Island—Antarctica's largest glacier.
Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2020
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