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THE BIGGEST THREAT TO GREENLAND’S GLACIERS LIES DEEPER IN THE OCEAN THAN EXPECTED
This article discusses the threats to Greenland’s glaciers coming from the ocean.
This summer, a chunk of ice the size of lower Manhattan broke off of a glacier in Eastern Greenland. It contained 10 billion tons of ice, making the video of the event an insanely shareable capsule of […]
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As NM Reservoirs Hit Bottom, Worries Grow Over the Future of water there
This article discusses the worries over the future of the New Mexico Reservoirs as they are being drained. The state’s reservoirs have done their job to help water users survive record drought in 2018. Now they are almost totally dry, and tensions are building over the year ahead. […]
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In Greenland, a glacier’s collapse shows climate impact
This article discusses what a team of NASA scientists learned when they traveled to Greenland to understand how warming oceans are melting the island’s ice from below.
Perched on a cliff above Greenland’s Helheim glacier, I tried calling my wife in New York on a satellite phone. Before I could leave […]
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Crisis at Lake Powell Looms Large as Long-Term Drought Reaches Upstream
This article discusses the problems that Lake Powell is having because of drought, exacerbated by climate change. Water shortages at Lake Mead have drawn all the attention in recent years. Now water rationing has reached far into the Colorado River’s snowy headwaters, prompting concern about the long-term operation […]
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NASA probe will track melting polar ice in unprecedented detail
This article discusses NASA’s latest attempts to track the thickness of ice in the polar regions. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite can measure changes in ice thickness to within half a centimeter.
NASA is set to launch its most advanced global ice-monitoring satellite, which has been in […]
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The Melting Arctic Is a Real-Time Horror Story — Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?
This article discusses the problems with polar ice melting because of global warming. This summer’s epic wildfires and other extreme weather events have a root cause.
Last week, scientists learned that 40-foot piles of compacted sea ice — some of the oldest and most durable […]
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NASA launching space laser to track Earth’s polar ice loss
This article discusses how NASA researchers are using space lasers to track Earth’s changing climate with greater precision than ever before.
Next month, the space agency will launch the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) about 300 miles above Earth, where it will use six lasers to measure the changing […]
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Study: As the Arctic Heats Up, Summer Weather Is Lingering in Place
This article discusses how global warming is affecting the Polar Regions.
Climate change is causing major planetary atmospheric circulation systems like the jet stream to slow down — stalling summer weather patterns across Europe, North America, and parts of Asia, according to a new analysis published in the journal Nature Communications. As […]
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Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record
This article discusses how the Arctic sea ice is melting far faster than it has in recent history. Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary.
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters […]
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Are Antarctica’s glaciers losing or gaining ice?
This article discusses Antarctica’s melting glaciers. New ice forms in the interior as snow falls and is compacted under its own weight. This new ice then pushes the older ice downhill toward the sea. But now, Antarctic glaciers are losing ice faster than they are gaining it.
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