In Patagonia, more snow could protect glaciers from melt—but only if greenhouse gas are curbed emissions soon
In an era of dwindling glaciers, Southern Patagonia has managed to hold on to a surprising amount of its ice. But, a new ...
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Over half of the world’s glaciers are on pace to disappear by 2100
Over half of the world’s glaciers could vanish by 2100, impacting sea levels, water supplies, and climate stability.
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Melting Glaciers Are Causing Billions of Dollars of Damage
Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...
Scientists find evidence that entirety of Earth was once covered in ice
Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.
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Earth's Greatest Ice Age Really Did Bring Ice Sheets To The Equator
Yet when they started finding far more ancient hints of glaciers in even more tropical regions, they were skeptical. It ...
Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation to speed up warming down south, model suggests
A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...
The Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than we thought—here’s why it matters
This Antarctic ice mass holds an immense volume of water that, if it melts, could set off a chain reaction, driving sea ...
Glaciers Reveal When Volcanoes Are on Brink of Eruption
New research shows that glaciers near active volcanoes flow faster than other glaciers. The findings suggest it would be ...
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Experts discuss potential effects on campus events, activities as ice sheets diminish
As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...
Can an Ingenious Ice Curtain Stop Antarctica From Melting?
Researchers have proposed a groundbreaking plan to install an 80-kilometer underground curtain to protect the West Antarctic ...
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In Patagonia, more snow could protect glaciers from melt -- but only if we curb greenhouse gas emissions soon
They used an equation that, when plugged into NASA's ice-sheet and sea-level system model, simulated glacial dynamics for the past six millenia. The results showed that precipitation, not temperature, ...