Remember the difference between weather and climate? We know what happens when the weather changes—it’s obvious. Climate is another story. Read on. When it rains, you put on a raincoat … [Read full article]
Tag: glaciers
Glaciers Contributing Same As Ice Sheet Melt To Sea Level Rise
Research has found that approximately 99% of our planet’s land-locked ice is held up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The remainder, however, is out in the open, located … [Read full article]
Climate Change At Fault For Massive Andes Glacier Melting
New research into the continued decline of glaciers around the planet is not new, yet nevertheless these studies remain critically important to understanding our impact upon the environment and the … [Read full article]
Columbia Glacier Expected to Stop Retreating in 2020
The spectacular Columbia Glacier in Alaska is expected to halt its retreat in 2020 when it reaches a new stable position approximately 15 miles upstream from the stable position it … [Read full article]
Irreversible Sea Level Rise to Continue for Thousands of Years
It’s too late! We’re all going to die! So says the latest research to be published in the respected journal Environmental Research Letters. OK. I might be jumping to a bit … [Read full article]
Himalayan Glaciers Retreating at Accelerated Rate in Some Regions but Not Others
The consequences for the Himalayan water supply depend heavily on the region’s thousands of glaciers, that in the east and central areas of the region are retreating at accelerating rates … [Read full article]
Snowball Earth Saw Dynamic Ice Sheets
The snowball Earth hypothesis suggests that at some point approximately 715 million years ago our planet’s surface was totally – or as close as can be – covered in ice. … [Read full article]
Long Lost Photos Reveal Precious Data About Greenland's Glacier History
Considering that we didn’t start getting satellites up into the atmosphere until the 1970s, it comes as no surprise that recently discovered photographs from the 1930s depicting Greenland’s glaciers … [Read full article]
View the Retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier
The Columbia Glacier in Alaska descends from an ice field 3,050 metres above sea level down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains and into a narrow inlet that eventually leads … [Read full article]
New Study Looks at Glacier Speeds, Rethinks Contribution to Sea Level Rise
Understanding the contribution outlet glaciers have on the global sea level rise is tricky business, and as a new study shows, we are seriously lacking in long-term information. A lack … [Read full article]
International Team of Scientists to Study Third Pole
Information regarding the health and fate of glaciers across the planet is rare and often misunderstood, causing some experts to make claims that bear no weight in fact. Now, an … [Read full article]
Tibetan Glaciers Growing Against the Flow
Despite glaciers across the planet melting at an accelerated and unprecedented rate, one mountain range along the rim of the Tibetan plateau is home to a series of glaciers that … [Read full article]
Link Found Between Ancient Climate Change and Mass Extinction
New research led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, Caltech, have discovered new details that support the idea that the mass extinction that took place approximately 450 million … [Read full article]