glacier

Is Climate Change Shrinking Glaciers? Likelihood Is 99 Percent

Posted in Science on 19th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

The scientists investigated 37 glaciers representing five geographic regions:

Melting glacier could raise sea levels by almost 3 metres

Posted in Science on 22nd May, 2016
by Alex Muller

The study published in the journal Nature looked at the retreating ice levels of the Totten Glacier, a glacier in eastern Antarctica roughly the size of France.

Sentinels in constant watch on the polar glaciers

Posted in Science on 24th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller

The EU's Sentinel satellite system has begun monitoring six polar glaciers in near real-time.

Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk

Posted in Science on 24th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

The 12.4km sq section is among the largest ever witnessed to come away from the ice stream's calving front.

Speed of glacier retreat worldwide 'historically unprecedented'

Posted in Featured, Science on 6th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have recorded alarming rates of glacial retreat, which are accelerating at a pace double that of a decade ago.