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Seismic Clues to Surging Glaciers

Jon Kelvey, Science Writer by Jon Kelvey 24 May 201920 October 2021

Measuring seismic waves passing through a glacier suggests that not only is liquid water playing a role in periodic surging but the water is channeled into cracks from across the ice.

Aerial photo of an ice shelf projecting into the sea
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Warm Water Is Rapidly Eroding Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 7 May 201917 March 2023

The underside of the world’s largest ice shelf is melting—by meters per year in some places—because of the seasonal inflow of water heated by the Sun, observations of the White Continent reveal. 

A kneeling scientist extracts a sample from a glacier.
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Plastic Fragments Found for the First Time on a Glacier

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 18 April 201913 January 2022

The discovery, made in the Italian Alps, confirms the ubiquity of plastic pollution worldwide.

A false-color satellite image of melting glaciers in the Russian Arctic
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Fast-Melting Mountain Glaciers Speed Up Sea Level Rise

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 16 April 20192 September 2022

Satellites spy on remote alpine glaciers, producing more accurate—and higher—estimates of ice loss over time.

Martian Polar Layered Deposits
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How Do Intergranular Particles Affect the Flow of Ice?

by Terri Cook 15 April 20198 August 2022

Laboratory experiments that indicate rock particles can impede sliding along grain boundaries in ice may help researchers more accurately determine the composition of planetary ice masses.

The Bas Glacier d’Arolla in Valais, Switzerland
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Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps

by Terri Cook 12 April 20199 February 2023

A new statistical analysis of daily, glacial runoff cycles offers a unique way of examining how Alpine glaciers have responded since the onset of rapid regional warming in the 1980s.

The Getz Ice Shelf in Antarctica
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Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf

by Terri Cook 11 April 201911 January 2022

Two years of mooring observations at the edge of the continental shelf show that wind stress and upwelling control the inflow of some of the warmest water observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica.

Aerial view of the Grand Canyon
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Did Global Glaciation Cause the Great Unconformity?

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 9 April 201917 February 2023

In a new study, researchers make the case that large-scale glaciation during parts of the Neoproterozoic era led to extensive erosion of Earth’s crust.

A view of the aircraft used to collect radar data over Antarctica
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Subglacial Water Can Accelerate East Antarctic Glacier Flow

by Terri Cook 3 April 201928 July 2022

Airborne radar from the Recovery Glacier system demonstrates the importance of characterizing the underlying causes of ice flow speedup to understand how glacial discharge could change in the future.

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Ice Drove Past Indo-Pacific Climate Variance

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 2 April 20192 March 2023

Researchers used both terrestrial and marine proxy data to reconstruct the dramatic and dynamic climatic changes.

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