A team of scientists has captured on video a four-mile iceberg breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland, an event that points to one of the forces behind global sea-level rise.
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2018
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It is a plan as crazy as the situation is desperate—towing an iceberg from Antarctica to Cape Town to supply fresh water to a city in the grip of drought.
Environment
Jul 3, 2018
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over Alaska's Columbia Glacier, one of the most rapidly changing glaciers in the world.
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2018
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The laws for how granular materials flow apply even at the giant, geophysical scale of icebergs piling up in the ocean at the outlet of a glacier, scientists have shown.
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. Just weeks later, the berg named B-44 shattered into more than 20 fragments. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2018
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Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound. The part of the iceberg below water appears bluest primarily due to blue ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2017
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Surface water conditions in Greenland's fjords and in the northern Atlantic Ocean are dictated by what's going on deep below the surface next to the massive Greenland Ice Sheet, UO-led research has found.
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2017
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The recent calving of a large iceberg from a southern Chilean glacier threatens local ship navigation and could result in flooding for costal communities, experts said.
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2017
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An animation of the giant iceberg that calved off the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica just over two months ago shows an unexpected break up.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2017
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A lot happened on the Antarctic Peninsula under the cloak of the 2017 polar night—most notably, the calving of a massive iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf. At the time (July), scientists had to rely on thermal imagery ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2017
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