Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off
For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall, extending the…
Amendment 71: New Opportunity: A.16 Cryosphere
A.16 Cryosphere solicits high-impact efforts focused on sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers. The expectation is that proposed investigations will use the wealth of data from NASA satellites and airborne campaigns to address the…
Ice Island Survives Run-In With Joe Island
Summer is prime iceberg season in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 was no exception. Especially notable was the…
An Uncommon Drifter in the Denmark Strait
Greenland’s jagged coastline is lined with fjords, many of them cradling marine-terminating glaciers that routinely calve icebergs into…
Sensing the Poles’ Hidden Heat
At the top and bottom of the planet, the seasons arrive on a schedule all their own. Satellite…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR…
New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights
Landslides in Alaska. Air quality in Atlanta. Fire clouds out West. From the Arctic fringes to farm country, NASA’s newest class of suborbital Earth Venture missions is gearing up to deliver science that…
Fans of the Arctic – NASA Science
Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the answer to the July Puzzler. Call it an alluvial face-off. On the southern…
Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs – NASA Science
The Southern Patagonian Icefield is the largest expanse of ice in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica. The…
A Sea of Spinning Clouds
Over the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, winds can whip around the globe relatively unimpeded by land. Intrepid sailors…
Record-Setting Retreat of Hektoria Glacier
To say something moves at a glacial pace is to imply sluggish, unhurried change. But what transpired over…