melting glaciers
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‘Doomsday’ Antarctic Glacier Melting Faster Than Expected, Fueling Calls for Geoengineering
With the fate of the Thwaites Glacier still uncertain, some experts are pushing for geoengineering and more intense climate action.
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If Ice Could Talk: Environmental Personhood in Social Media
What if the environment could speak for itself? Would people listen? Some parody social media accounts are trying to find out.
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Increase in West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Inevitable in 21st Century
Significant ocean warming and associated ice-shelf melting is unavoidable, even under the most ambitious future climate scenario, according to new research.
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Chinese Scientists Are Combating a Glacier’s Melting By Covering It With a Blanket
Researchers at China’s Nanjing University are using a reflective blanket to stave off melting of the Dagu Glacier.
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Landmark International Report: Current Emissions Path Threatens Two Billion People in Hindu Kush Himalayas
New international assessment finds emissions and climate policy falls short in the high mountain regions of Asia, threatening billions of people and species in the area.
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Sediments That Tell a Story: Patagonian Ice Field Sediment Cores Reveal Glacial Waxing and Waning Over Thousands of Years
A recent study uses a sediment core to reconstruct paleoclimate in the early and middle Holocene and Neoglacial periods.
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Changing Perspectives: How Bottom-Up Studies Can Improve Water Security
When monitoring melting glaciers, integrating scientific knowledge with local and Indigenous knowledge may improve data collection as well as local adaptation.
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Two Degrees Too Many: Average Global Temperature Increase Will Trigger Climate Tipping Points
A recent study expands upon previously established tipping points, naming 16 total tipping points and their respective temperature triggers.
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‘The Canary in the Coal Mine’: Most Olympic Peninsula Glaciers Will Disappear by 2070
A recent study projects that climate change will cause most glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to disappear by 2070, threatening water resources, ecosystems, and tourism.
