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Pinyon pines and sagebrush above the basin of Baldwin Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains
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Southern California Climate Change over 100,000 Years

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 11 February 20205 June 2023

Researchers used a sediment core from a lake in California’s San Bernardino Mountains to track the effect of climate on vegetation, fire, and erosion between about 120,000 and 15,000 years ago.

Undergraduate researchers prepare to take radiation measurements during their expedition to the Greenland Ice Sheet last June.
Posted inScience Updates

Seeing the Greenland Ice Sheet Through Students’ Eyes

by Chelsea E. Snide, Lydia Gilbert, Abigail Meyer, Perry Samson, Mark Flanner and Jeremy Bassis 4 February 20205 October 2021

A team of students and faculty advisers revisited the site of pioneering geosciences expeditions from the 1920s, looking to introduce young researchers to polar science.

A smiling scientist in shorts stands on a rocky outcrop near the Great Salt Lake.
Posted inNews

An Ice Sheet’s Footprint on Ancient Shorelines

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 3 February 20203 November 2021

Researchers combine observations of ancient shorelines and properties of Earth’s crust to infer the size of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glacial cycle.

icefin-exploring-below-sea-ice
Posted inFeatures

Diagnosing Thwaites

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 31 January 202013 December 2021

The water under a vulnerable Antarctic glacier is warming. Its catastrophic collapse could trigger a dramatic increase in global sea level.

Part of Zongo Glacier on Bolivia’s Huayna Potosí, about 25 kilometers north of La Paz, as seen in January 2010
Posted inNews

Amazon Fires Contribute to Andean Glacier Melting

by Michael Allen 13 January 202016 July 2025

New research finds that black carbon emissions produced by fires in the Amazon cause glaciers in the Andes to absorb more sunlight and melt more.

Glacial cliff towers above an icy sea
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Controlled Explosions Pave the Way for Thwaites Glacier Research

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 10 January 202013 December 2021

Scientists detonate explosives in West Texas to prepare for fieldwork in West Antarctica.

Aerial photo of the white and blue ice of the Thwaites ice shelf
Posted inNews

What Lies Beneath Is Important for Ice Sheets

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 19 December 201926 January 2023

New research reconstructing the topography of Antarctica shows that the continent has 25% less land above sea level than when ice first started to accumulate 34 million years ago.

A pool of meltwater on Greenland’s ice sheet
Posted inNews

A New Source of Sea Level Rise from Greenland: Ice Slabs

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 10 December 201911 January 2022

Runoff from the Greenland ice sheet’s high elevations could double by 2100, thanks to solid layers of ice hiding just beneath the surface.

A woman outfitted in climbing gear stands on a dirty glacier.
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Podcast: A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 18 November 201928 October 2022

The radioactive remains of nuclear testing during the Cold War and from nuclear disasters like Chernobyl are still with us and can be found in some of the remotest glaciers on Earth.

Aerial images of Breiðamerkurjökull glacial tongue taken in 1989 (top) and 2019 (bottom)
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Drones Capture Iceland’s Shrinking Glaciers

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 8 November 201911 January 2022

Photographs of Iceland’s southern glaciers show pools of water where walls of ice once stood.

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