Tag Archives: glaciers

A massive, catastrophic tsunami triggered by a landslide of reef left unstable after the glacier melts in Alaska, scientists fear – and it could happen within the next 12 months. In May, …

Scientists call it doomsday glacier. Partly this is because one of Britain’s glacial-shaped thwaites in western Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate: it is retreating about half a mile (2,625 feet) …

According to a new study based on satellite data, the amount of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide had increased by 50 percent in 30 years due to climate change. “We know that …

Glacial lakes around the world have grown rapidly in recent decades, according to satellite images that increase the flow of meltwater from retreating glaciers. Scientists analyzed more than a million satellite images …

Researchers said Wednesday that more than half of the ice shelves are ringing in Antarctica, preventing giant glaciers from slipping into the sea and raising the sea level to risk falling. The …

Scientists from Leeds and Edinburgh Universities and University College London analyzed satellite surveys of glaciers, mountains and ice sheets between 1994 and 2017 to identify the effects of global warming. His review …

The last fully intact ice shelf in Canada has fallen into the Arctic Ocean. Scientists took a few days to lose nearly half of their territory on Friday, scientists said Friday, sending …

Homes have been evacuated at the courtyard in Italy’s Aosta Valley, following renewed warnings that a large part of the Mont Blanc glacier is in danger of collapsing. Experts from the Fondazione …

At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was covered in ice and ice sheets. These dramatic “snowball earth” events occurred in quick succession, some 700 million years ago, and …

Not all ice ages are equally cruel. In the most extreme glacial events known to science, ice spreads from the Earth’s polar regions and extends all the way to the lower latitudes, …