When we think of glaciers, horrifying images of them receding into the water because of climate change immediately come to mind. But we silly humans who are actively destroying this planet are equally ...

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A study shows ice-marginal lakes in Greenland accelerate glacier flow, increasing ice loss. These lakes reduce friction and ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

Seismic monitoring of glaciers is essential to improving understanding of their development and to predicting risks. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor Fabian Walter, who works at at ...

In 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska to set up scientific instruments, researcher Tim Bartholomaus encountered something completely unexpected. "What the heck is this!" Bartholomaus ...

On a map, have students locate Greenland and Antarctica on the map. Tell them that Greenland's continental ice sheet contains the second largest amount of frozen freshwater in the world, after ...

Using satellite imagery to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier and caused it to grow by about ...