Recent research has uncovered alarming evidence on how ice shelves are not just bending under pressure but are actively ...
Robert O'Brien was recently appointed as the Director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research with the Universities Space Research Association.
The new work may help explain how the Larsen B Ice Shelf abruptly collapsed in 2002. In the months before its catastrophic breakup, thousands of meltwater lakes littered the ice shelf’s surface, which ...
Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse. When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice ...
During the winters of 2016 and 2017, a hole the size of Switzerland opened in the middle of Antarctica's sea ice. And ...
There is an element of truth here — the thick cap of multiyear Arctic sea ice that has shaped the region for thousands of ...
"Snow is definitely key in an area where more than half of the streamflow comes from snow melt. Understanding the dynamics of how that's formed and how that changes, and how it varies spatially is ...
A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly. By Susan Shain Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off ...
The sunlight's ultraviolet rays up the chances of humans developing skin cancer and cataracts. However, it remains unclear whether Antarctic mammals and birds face similar risks. A new study has found ...
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