From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
Environment
Dec 12, 2015
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For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth's polar ice, is conducting overlapping campaigns in Antarctica and the Arctic. Since 2009, IceBridge has ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 24, 2015
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From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2015
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When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others.
Ecology
Sep 1, 2015
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The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Together with its National Correspondents in more than 30 countries, the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2015
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Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2015
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Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2014
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Even from 65,000 feet above Earth, aquamarine melt ponds in the Arctic stand out against the white sea ice and ice sheets. These ponds form every summer, as snow that built up on the ice melts, creating crystal clear pools.
Earth Sciences
Aug 5, 2014
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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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A team of British scientists is making final preparations for an ambitious Antarctic science mission.
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2013
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