Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Glacial Melt
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Villagers 'living between life and death' as Pakistan's glaciers melt
When a glacial lake burst in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan province in July, Sher Baz watched helplessly as the waters swept away his family home. Residents of Badswat village, which lies in
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Scientists detect a human fingerprint in the atmosphere's seasonal cycles
We know that humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. It used to be that “climate change” mostly referred to increasing temperatures near the Earth’s surface, but increasingly, climate change has
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Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast-Greenland
<p>Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden is a major outlet glacier in Northeast-Greenland. Although earlier studies showed that the floating part near the grounding line thinned by 30% between 1999 and 2014, the temporal
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Antarctica's ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before
The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study. In the last quarter
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Antarctica melting faster than ever before posing significant threat to coastal cities, according to major study
Ice melting in Antarctica is causing sea levels to rise at a massive rate and the frozen continent has lost about 3 trillion tonnes of ice in the last 25 years. Warning that its rate of melting is
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Glacier changes in the Bavarian Alps from 1989/90 to 2006/07
<p>The five glaciers in Bavaria which today cover a total area of less than one square kilometer were frequently monitored by geodetic methods from the mid of the 20th century. In this paper, the record
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Study reveals new Antarctic process contributing to sea level rise and climate change
A new IMAS-led study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise. Led by
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Glacier loss is accelerating because of global warming
With global warming, we can make predictions and then take measurements to test those predictions. One prediction (a pretty obvious one) is that a warmer world will have less snow and ice. In particular,
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Global warming pushing Antarctica’s living organisms towards extinction’
The populations of the Adelie and Chinstrap penguin species are declining as there shortage of food and their snowy habitat is shrinking The global warming is not only causing melting of glaciers in
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Freshening by glacial meltwater enhances melting of ice shelves and reduces formation of Antarctic bottom water
<p>Strong heat loss and brine release during sea ice formation in coastal polynyas act to cool and salinify waters on the Antarctic continental shelf. Polynya activity thus both limits the ocean heat flux