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Map of Lake Geneva and surrounding catchments.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Organic Radiocarbon Reveals its Inorganic Ancestry in Lake Geneva

by Maximilian Lau 6 May 20256 May 2025

Organic and inorganic radiocarbon ages resolve the origin and dynamics of carbon in the largest natural lake of Western Europe.

Planet Labs image of the downstream impacts of the 28 April 2025 Glacial Outburst Flood (GLOF) / landslide at Vallunaraju in Peru.
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The 28 April 2025 Glacial Outburst Flood (GLOF) / landslide at Vallunaraju in Peru

by Dave Petley 2 May 20252 May 2025

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 28 April 2025, a major debris flow travelled down a channel from a major mountain, Vallunaraju, striking the communities lower down the slope. At least 100 houses were destroyed and two […]

A glacier curves between two dark mountains beneath a blue sky.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Glaciers Offer Clues into the Path of Fossil Fuel Pollution

by Rebecca Owen 28 April 202518 June 2025

New research traces the origin of carbon deposited from the atmosphere onto glaciers.

Photo of the snowy Southern Alps covered in red dust.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Why the Southern Alps Turned Red During the Summer of 2019-2020

by Bin Zhao 23 April 202522 April 2025

Snow on the Southern Alps turned from white to red in 2019-2020. New geochemical evidence points to the color change resulting from red Australian desert dust carried across the Tasman Sea.

Aerial image of glaciers in the Southern Alps in New Zealand, taken during the annual snowline survey
Posted inNews

First Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast

by Veronika Meduna 15 April 202515 April 2025

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise.

Dozens of ice cores—long, thin cylinders—are stored on a metal shelf and seen from the front, so they look like circles.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

When Ice Ages End, Ocean Circulation Fine-Tunes Ocean Heat

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 14 April 202514 April 2025

New Antarctic ice core data bolster model predictions of ocean heat content during glacials and interglacials.

Maps of the study region.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Nonlinear Dynamics May Lead to Faster Retreat of Antarctic Ice

by Minghua Zhang 14 April 202514 April 2025

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.

A glacier sits atop a jagged gray mountain.
Posted inNews

A New 3D Map Shows Precipitous Decline of Ugandan Glaciers

by Emily Dieckman 3 April 202523 June 2025

A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating radar data to document glacial retreat.

View from afar of a blue and white research vessel next to an iceberg.
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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 31 March 202523 June 2025

A quick-calving iceberg gave scientists a rare glimpse into what hides beneath Antarctic ice.

4 maps of Antarctica with different model results projected onto them.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Subglacial Hydrology Under the Antarctic Ice Sheet

by Minghua Zhang 25 March 202525 March 2025

Using simulations of subglacial hydrology, a new study shows the volume and movement of meltwater underneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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