Could heat from a Martian volcano create a habitable environment?
The slopes of a giant Martian volcano, once covered in glacial ice, may have been home to one of the…
South American glacial thinning sharply accelerates
Thinning of the largest icefields in the southern hemisphere (excluding Antarctica) has accelerated sharply, with a new study showing Patagonian…
Glacial Acceleration Linked To “Plumbing” Issues
A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska’s Kennicott Glacier, causing it…
Glacier Behavior Confounds Climate Pundits
The behavior of two of Greenland’s largest glaciers underlines the problem in assuming that glacial melting and sea level rise…
Alpine Glaciers: Going, Going, Gone!
European Alpine glacial cover will decrease by 80 percent if summer temperatures increase by 5 degrees Fahrenheit, say scientists from…
Antarctic Glaciers In Widespread Retreat
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducting a study of Antarctic glaciers have…
Glacier Speed-Up Causes Concern
In findings reported in Nature, Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae, the world’s fastest moving glacier, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003.…
Antarctic Glacier Flows Accelerating
NASA, Canadian, and European satellites have observed worrying increases in the flow of glaciers into the open ocean, following the…