SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: January 23, 2018 SNIP: Mountain glaciers around the world, from the Himalayas to the Andes, are shrinking in the face of climate change—and that could pose a major threat to water resources for nearby communities. These mountain...
SOURCE: AGU DATE: January 17, 2018 SNIP: Scientists are uncovering the mystery of how, where and when important glacial features called moulins form on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Moulins, vertical conduits that penetrate through the half-mile-deep ice, efficiently...
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: December 13, 2017 SNIP: Scientists sounding the seabed off Antarctica have uncovered some surprising episodes from the continent’s history: The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, they say, experienced a series of dramatic retreats in the...
SOURCE: Grist DATE: November 21, 2017 SNIP: The glaciers of Pine Island Bay are two of the largest and fastest-melting in Antarctica. (A Rolling Stone feature earlier this year dubbed Thwaites “The Doomsday Glacier.”) Together, they act as a plug holding back enough...
SOURCE: EarthSky Voices DATE: November 19, 2017 SNIP: Venezuela used to have five glaciers. Today, only one remains. The last glacier in Venezuela, the Humboldt glacier, is about to disappear. Once Venezuela loses the Humbolt, it will become the first country in...
