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Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth ...
New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...
Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of eruptions from the volcanoes beneath them. But as glaciers retreat due to climate change, our findings suggest these volcanoes go on to erupt more frequently ...
Retired National Park Service geologist Jon Riedel told The News Tribune, "The trends were clear at Mount Rainier: that the ...
The partitioning of ablation processes between sublimation and melt is critical to glacier response to climate variability and change in high-elevation tropical environments (e.g., MacDonell et al., ...
In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...
Switzerland's glaciers are rapidly melting, resembling Swiss cheese due to climate change. Matthias Huss of GLAMOS highlights the severe impact on the Rhone Glacier. The melting contributes to ...
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group ...
“When the glacier will be melting, which is at the moment a speed of about 5 to 10 centimeters (2-4 inches) a day, this pole will re-emerge.” ...
As a warming climate pushes up the melting to higher altitudes, such flows will slow down or even stop altogether and the glacier will essentially become “an ice patch that is just lying there,” Huss ...