Researchers link El Niño to accelerated melting of ice in the tropics
Natural climate events such as El Niño are causing ice loss from tropical glaciers at an alarming rate, according to ...
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Atmospheric blocking slows ocean-driven melting of Greenland’s largest ice tongue
Northeast Greenland is home to the 79°N glacier, the country’s largest floating glacier tongue, but also one of the most ...
Glaciers are melting and trees are burning: the identity crisis of America’s great parks
Glacier National Park will soon have none left. The giant trees of Sequoia Park are burning. Even the cacti in ...
Greenland’s ice sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation, major satellite analysis shows
An estimated 11,000 square miles or 28,707 square kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the past ...
Currently stable parts of East Antarctica may be closer to melting than we imagine
In a warming climate, Antarctic meltwater is expected to contribute significantly to rising seas. However, most research has focused on ...
Melting glaciers destroy important climate data archives
As part of the Ice Memory initiative, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), in collaboration with colleagues from the ...
