Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...
As well as this "push-pull influence" of ice, the ground under a melting ice sheet expands vertically ... ice sheets and ice caps are of specific importance." Another member of the team, Dr ...
Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the ...
Modeling glacier behavior involves firstly the physical parameters of ice flow, then topographical parameters, and finally meteorological parameters that can go far back into the past.
Yet humans are well on the way to wrecking the oceans. From climate change and melting ice caps to islands of floating garbage, we are increasingly fouling what was once the perfectly, chemically ...
Ice caps are particularly sensitive to changes in temperature, so if the earth warms, glaciers are the first to notice, and respond, by melting. Mauro Fischer, a glaciologist at the University of ...