Mining industry competing with salmon for rivers created by disappearing glaciers: SFU study finds
A study led by Simon Fraser University researchers finds that mining companies are staking claims on future salmon habitats as ...
Tag: Glaciers
New research: Fivefold increase in the melting of Greenland’s glaciers over the last 20 years
In the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, using both satellite imagery and old aerial photos from the Danish ...
Meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers may be accelerating their retreat
A new Antarctic ice sheet modeling study from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that meltwater ...
Scientists find evidence of world’s oldest glaciers
Scientists have discovered the traces of the world’s oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting ...
Shrinking Arctic glaciers are unearthing a new source of methane
As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent ...
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity Credit: University of Leeds Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates ...
How to map hidden meltwater paths in glaciers and why is it important?
Norwegian and Estonian researchers have developed a method to map hidden meltwater paths in glaciers. Having a better understanding of ...
Satellites observe speed-up of Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula
Glaciers - giant blocks of moving ice - along Antarctica’s coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a ...
Team projects 2 out of 3 glaciers could be lost by 2100
Assistant Professor David Rounce of Civil and Environmental Engineering led an international effort to produce new projections of glacier mass ...
Melting glaciers will release huge amounts of microorganisms to the aquatic environment
When glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere shrink as a result of climate change, large amounts of microorganisms will be released ...
Impact of changing climate on Andean glaciers in sync with polar ice
Glaciers in tropical mountain ranges are experiencing similar impact from the drivers of climate change as those in the polar ...
Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate for 5,500 years, finds study
At the current rate of retreat the vast glaciers, which extend deep into the heart of the ice sheet, could ...
More difficult than expected for glaciers to recover from climate warming
Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland’s second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless ...
Model pinpoints glaciers at risk of collapse due to climate change
As climate change warms the planet, glaciers are melting faster, and scientists fear that many will collapse by the end ...
New PSU research predicts the disappearance of Olympic Peninsula glaciers
By 2070, the glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington State, will have largely disappeared, said Andrew G. Fountain, professor ...
Melting Arctic glaciers see drop in fungi biodiversity
Scientists investigating fungal biodiversity on glaciers undergoing rapid ice loss in the Canadian High Arctic have found that such glacier ...
Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
The icefields that stretch for hundreds of miles atop the Andes mountain range in Chile and Argentina are melting at ...
New atlas finds globe’s glaciers have less ice than previously thought
HANOVER, N.H. – February 7, 2022 – The first atlas to measure the movement and thickness of the world’s glaciers ...
uOttawa study shows widespread retreat and loss of marine-terminating glaciers in the northern hemisphere
In their article “Retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers, 2000-2020” published in Geophysical Research Letters, they analyzed all 1704 glaciers ...
New research strengthens link between glaciers and Earth’s ‘Great Unconformity’
HANOVER, N.H. – January 25, 2022 – New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years ...
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Investigation of degradation mechanism for all-solid-state batteries takes another step toward commercialization
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Being overweight hampers body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Needle-free ultrasound vaccine delivery #Acoustics23
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Hope for autoimmune skin disorder sufferers with new immunotherapy strategy
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Understanding subjective beliefs could be vital to tailoring more effective treatments for depression and ADHD