How Climate Change Is Affecting Glaciers Around the World
NASA satellites are offering new insights into how glaciers in Antarctica and Asia are responding to warmer temperatures.
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Using Fahrenheit Can Obscure the True Severity of Climate Change
New research finds that our response to a projected temperature rise differs depending on the scale we use.
Overfishing of Krill Is Disrupting Antarctic Food Chains
Commercial fishing for the tiny crustacean has increased in recent years to supply growing demand for nutritional supplements.
The Iceberg That Just Broke Off From Antarctica, Pictured From Space on July 12th
The iceberg has a volume twice that of Lake Erie and weighs more than a trillion metric tons.
Antarctica Is About to Lose an Ice Shelf the Size of Delaware
Warming oceans and intensifying winds are combining to speed decay of coastal ice.
Will the Last Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelf Crumble?
The formation of a giant iceberg could spell the beginning of the end for Larsen C. By Bob…
Warm Ocean Water Is Melting East Antarctica From Below
A new study confirms the existence of deep sea channels that help eat away at the Totten Ice…
The Antarctic Peninsula Is Cooling Down, but…
Cool your jets, climate change deniers: The region’s climate is just really complicated. By Nathan Collins Booth Island…
Have We Been Wrong in Our Understanding of Ice Streams?
A new study of the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet suggests that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets may not accelerate as quickly as previously thought.
How Giant Icebergs Can Help Fight Climate Change
Melting icebergs leave behind a trail of nutrients that seeds the growth of tiny, carbon-sequestering marine organisms.