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glaciers & ice sheets

Floating ice is seen in the foreground, and an ominous storm cloud lies over a distant mountain range.
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Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes

by Ed Struzik 14 May 202414 May 2024

Rain used to be rare in the Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them.

Greenland seen from overhead, with dark stone mountaintops poking out above white snow
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Beneath the Ice: Greenland’s Geology Revealed in New Map

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 26 April 202426 April 2024

Advances in remote sensing offered an opportunity to redraw Greenland’s geologic map for the first time in 15 years.

A gloved hand holding a piece of ice.
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Drilling into Antarctica’s Past

by Rebecca Owen 1 April 20241 April 2024

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted rapidly around 8,000 years ago. Could that event foretell the future?

A schematic of the coupled ocean-ice model of rift propagation presented in the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Speed of Ice Shelf Rifting Controlled by Ocean-Ice Interactions

by Susan Trumbore 4 March 20244 March 2024

Scientists report the fastest rate of rift extension yet observed for an Antarctic floating ice shelf and explain why it is far slower than rates expected for brittle ice deformation.

A glacier in blue water
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El Niño May Have Kicked Off Thwaites Glacier Retreat

by Grace van Deelen 26 February 202428 February 2024

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” started losing mass midcentury, around the same time as its neighboring glacier.

A black and white satellite image shows sea ice, with cracks appearing bright white, beside snow-covered landfast ice (gray) and land (dark).
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Monitoring Polar Ice Change in the Twilight Zone

by Ted Scambos, Christopher Shuman, Mark Fahnestock, Tasha Snow and Christopher Crawford 20 February 202421 February 2024

Landsat’s new extended data collection program is mapping Arctic and Antarctic regions year-round, even in polar twilight.

An aerial photograph of a glacier that terminates at the sea.
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How Did We Miss 20% of Greenland’s Ice Loss?

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 February 20242 July 2024

The ice loss was hidden in places existing monitoring methods can’t reach, such as hard-to-map fjords. Machine learning helped scientist revise mass loss estimates and uncover patterns in glacial retreat.

Photo of an iceberg in water.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Deep Learning Tackles Deep Uncertainty 

by Nicholas Golledge 26 January 202424 January 2024

A new method based on artificial intelligence could help accelerate projections of polar ice melt and future sea level rise.

Photo of a glacier sitting on top of rock.
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Plants Reveal the History of Earth’s Largest Tropical Ice Cap

by Ann Rowan 16 January 20249 January 2024

Rooted plants buried by advancing outlet glaciers illustrate rapid changes in the extent of Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru during the Holocene.

A black, cylindrical seismic instrument sits on a bed of moss covered in a thin layer of frost.
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Frost Quakes Shake Up Finland’s Wetlands

by Grace van Deelen 16 January 202425 April 2024

New research shows frost quakes may happen more frequently in wetland areas and, similar to earthquakes, can cause damage to infrastructure.

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