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 ...
Tag: Glaciers
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 ...
Himalayan glaciers melting at ‘exceptional rate’
The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns.Credit: ...
Study suggests melting glaciers will produce new salmon habitat
Credit: Flathead Lake Biological Station FLATHEAD LAKE – For decades, climate change has had detrimental impacts on Pacific salmon populations. ...
Melting glaciers could produce 1,000s of kilometers of new Pacific salmon habitat by 2100
A study led by Simon Fraser University researchers has found that the retreat of glaciers in the Pacific mountains of ...
Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new Pacific salmon habitat
Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America could produce around 6,150 kilometers of new Pacific salmon habitat ...
Air bubbles sound climate change’s impact on glaciers #ASA181
SEATTLE, December 3, 2021 -- As the world's temperatures rise, tidewater glaciers are receding and melting, releasing air trapped in ...
Glaciers are melting faster and faster
For 20 years, a team from the VUB research group Ice and Climate Research, led by Professor Philippe Huybrechts, has ...