Browsing Tag
ice
15 posts
Melting permafrost makes ‘drunken forests’ store less carbon
[ad_1] A drunken forest in Alaska, where trees are tilting or collapsing to the ground due to permafrost…
Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist’s office
[ad_1] A destructive 2022 storm in Spain produced large hailstones up to 12 centimetres in diameter Tomeu Rigo…
Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
[ad_1] Drilling for ice cores helps reveal the health of the Antarctic Nerilie Abram If all our fear…
Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate
[ad_1] Around 1.1 billion people live around lakes that freeze mktotoro/iStockphoto/Getty Images Like melting sea ice and glaciers,…
Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship
[ad_1] James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is…
Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals a permanent shift
[ad_1] Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy For the second year in a row, Antarctic…
Melting Antarctic ice could actually slow sea level rise
[ad_1] An ice shelf on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images…
Glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they’ve been for 130,000 years
[ad_1] Queshque glacier in Peru is retreating because of global heating Emilio Mateo/Aspen Global Change Institute Mountain glaciers…
Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible
[ad_1] It was 21 years ago that I trekked and swam solo, without resupply, across the icy Arctic…
Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping
[ad_1] Broken sea ice in Lancaster Sound, part of the Northwest Passage Alison Cook Shipping companies have anticipated…