by faster | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Stuff DATE: August 20, 2019 SNIP: Visitors to the Franz Josef glacier are noticing changes – it’s melting away and it’s not the only one. Victoria University of Wellington PHD Student Lauren Vargo said when surveys started in the late 1970s,...
by faster | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Science DATE: August 5, 2019 SNIP: The sweltering heat wave that roasted much of Europe last month has since moved north, where it’s wreaking havoc on the Greenland ice sheet. But while all eyes are currently trained on the Arctic ice, scientists are...
by faster | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: CBC DATE: August 1, 2019 SNIP: The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the...
by faster | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: July 25, 2019 SNIP: A new way of measuring how some glaciers melt below the surface of the water has uncovered a surprising realization: Some glaciers are melting a hundred times faster than scientists thought they were. In a new...
by faster | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Independent DATE: July 17, 2019 SNIP: A mountaineer has captured the formation of an “alarming” lake high in the French Alps after glacial snow melted in the intense heatwave that gripped central Europe in late June. Bryan Mestre was shocked to discover the...
