For Antarctic Penguins, Molting Can Now Be Deadly
Emperor penguins can’t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new…
West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology
By Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa,…
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
Greenland is closing in on three decades of continuous annual ice loss, with 1995-96 being the last year…
This Tiny Robot Was Lost in Arctic Waters for Months. Now It’s Back With Some Unique Data
Pete Harmsen, CC BY-ND Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was supposed to be…
Mapping Uneven Global Sea-Level Rise Threats
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea…
Space Lasers Reveal a 30-Year Secret About Our Rising Oceans
The research team implemented an innovative forward modelling technique to tackle spatial resolution limitations of satellite laser ranging,…