February 27, 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
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February 9, 2018
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Greenland’s rivers are impressive, with fast, powerful flows of turbulent, milky waters descending from glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet, …
September 21, 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
April 13, 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
November 12, 2015
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
October 23, 2015
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
“Modern Germany is not known for its earthquakes,” says Christian Brandes, a geoscientist at the University of Hannover in Germany. The country, …
September 21, 2015
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
June 1, 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
If you don’t know who Richard Alley is, stop reading for a minute and search for him on YouTube. Go on, this can wait. Back? What you likely saw …
January 5, 2015
Icebergs were the original Florida snowbirds
A new study shows that between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago, icebergs drifted southward off the coasts of South Carolina and Florida. Using …
November 4, 2014
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
September 3, 2014
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
From Antarctica to the Arctic; polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and burly bears to cold-loving microbes, fascinating …
September 2, 2014
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
Save the handful of Vikings who settled an ice-free stretch of Greenland’s southwest coast during the Medieval Warm Period a millennia ago, few …