Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago.
How might we prevent sea-level rise? Satellite-based radar, solar-powered drones, robot submarines and lab-based ‘artificial glaciers’ could all play a role Sea levels are rising faster than at any ...
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Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol ...
For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...
Continental is targeting annual cost savings of $172.73m from 2028. Credit: multitel/Shutterstock.com. Continental is preparing another round of restructuring measures at its ContiTech rubber and ...
AEW's Continental Classic round-robin tournament will return during next week's "AEW Dynamite" for the third year running. The tournament, established in 2023 with its first winner and inaugural ...
On October 25, a massive chunk of glacier broke away from the Ismoil Somoni Peak in Tajikistan’s Tajikabad district and thundered down the mountain. The ice mass – two kilometers long, 150-200 meters ...
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on Earth, and its future remains a major uncertainty in global sea-level rise ...
A new study suggests the Hektoria Glacier, seen here in 2024, shrank by 16 miles between January 2022 and March 2023—and five miles in November and December 2022 alone. Naomi Ochwat Researchers have ...
The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that as climate change causes many glaciers to shrink and retreat their ...