Humans Accidentally Canceled the Next Ice Age, Scientists Say
For billions of years, Earth has experienced periodic glacial cycles governed by its orbit around the Sun. No…
A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland
Petermann Glacier has shed a rare, Manhattan-sized Arctic ice island that researchers had watched develop for years. Credit:…
Hektoria Glacier Collapse Reveals How Fast Antarctica Can Fall Apart
Hektoria Glacier, October 2022. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S.…
Unusually Warm Water Detected Creeping Toward Antarctica – and Scientists Are Alarmed
A new long-term analysis of ocean data suggests that deep, warm waters in the Southern Ocean are shifting…
As Above, Not So Below: Ion Fractionation In Planetary Analog Ices
(A) Schematic of the ice growth apparatus. (B) Image of the ice growth apparatus shortly after the onset…