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A man wearing a blue life vest stands knee deep in water to collect a water sample downstream of the large glacier in the background.

Research Spotlights

Measuring Carbon’s Flow from Land to Sea

by Rebecca Owen 21 November 202321 November 2023

A new study catalogs how dissolved inorganic carbon moves through southeast Alaska’s waterways.

Llamas walking along a rocky landscape in front of a retreating glacier in Cordillera Blanca, northern Peru.

ENGAGE, News

How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers

by Sofia Moutinho 9 November 202317 November 2023

Reintroducing these animals can enrich barren soils and potentially reduce water contamination, a study shows.

Jagged-surfaced blue-white glacier, surrounded in the foreground by seawater and in the background by dark colored, snowcapped mountains

ENGAGE, News

Popping Bubbles Make Glaciers Melt Faster

by Erin Martin-Jones 25 October 202328 November 2023

Accounting for the newfound bubble effect could improve estimates of how sea-terminating glaciers melt underwater—and better anticipate their shrinkage as oceans warm.

A dark cliff next to a group of people with snowmobiles

News

Digitally Preserving Svalbard’s Fragile Geology

by Bill Morris 18 October 202318 October 2023

A team of researchers is making the iconic rock outcrops of Svalbard available to the world through an open-source database of virtual geological models.

Photo of snow-topped mountains surrounded by water.

Editors' Highlights

Melting Glaciers as a Source of Lead in Coastal Waters

by Marguerite A. Xenopoulos 13 October 202312 October 2023

New experiments show how lead circulates through glaciers, meltwater, and sediments in polar environments.

Planet Labs satellite image of the area of South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, India, after the landslide and GLOF.

The Landslide Blog

Active deformation around South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, India

by Dave Petley 12 October 202312 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In recent days, the dedicated group of landslide scientists that tries to understand large events has been focused on the dreadful Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) that caused such high levels of […]

lood damage in Rangpo caused by the Sikkim flood. Image by Praful Rao of Save the Hills.

The Landslide Blog

The likely causes of the 4 October 2023 Sikkim flood disaster

by Dave Petley 9 October 20239 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Amongst a deluge of tragic news stories, the appalling flood in Sikkim in NE India on 4 October 2023 has received less attention than it deserved. The basic information about the event […]

Photo of an ocean with snow-capped mountains in the background.

Editors' Vox

Marine Sediments Reveal Past Climate Responses to CO₂ Changes

by Sze Ling Ho and Erin McClymont 21 September 202320 September 2023

Climate records stored in marine sediments reveal different ice sheet and ocean responses to falling atmospheric CO₂ concentrations from the warm Pliocene to the ice ages of the Pleistocene.