Radioactive Clocks in Arctic Ice Reveal Hidden Water Flow Inside Permafrost
Radium and thorium isotope measurements from Svalbard permafrost cores show that some ground ice is thousands of years old while ...
Tag: cryosphere
New Model Simulates Radar Echoes from Snow and Ice to Sharpen Satellite Altimetry
Researchers have extended the open-source SMRT model to simulate delay-Doppler radar altimeter echoes from cryospheric surfaces, validating it against Sentinel-3 ...
Weighing the World’s Snow: Satellites Track Northern Hemisphere Snowpack From Space
A new dataset fuses satellite gravity measurements with meteorological data to reconstruct two decades of snow water equivalent, depth, and ...
Blood Snow on the Move: The Biophysics of How Algae Swim Through Melting Snowpacks
A new review synthesises the biophysics of how snow algae swim, sense and migrate through melting snowpacks, with major implications ...
Faster Antarctic model brings ocean-driven ice shelf melting into sharper focus
Version 2.0 of the open-source LADDIE model simulates detailed Antarctic ice shelf melting at two-kilometre continental resolution and an order ...
How Climate Evidence Reached Maturity: A Timeline Courts Now Rely On
A new historical review traces how four independent lines of climate evidence, temperature, sea level, greenhouse gases, and ice, matured ...
Penguin Guano Fuels Green Snow Algae That Accelerate Antarctic Melting
A new study shows that phosphate-rich penguin guano fertilizes green snow algae along the West Antarctic Peninsula, darkening the snow ...
Himalayan Glacial Lakes Triple in Number as Warming Reshapes the Upper Indus Basin
An automated satellite analysis using Google Earth Engine reveals that glacial lakes in the Upper Indus Sub-Basin tripled from 255 ...
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Wildly Different Speeds, Decades of Data Reveal
A systematic review of fifty studies shows glaciers across Uttarakhand retreating at rates from under 4 to 88 meters per ...
Hidden Microbes May Turn Himalayan Glacier Lakes Into Potent Methane Factories
A new study of Tibetan Plateau proglacial lakes shows that seasonal shifts in methane-producing and methane-consuming microbes control whether these ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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