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Scientists Find Extensive Glacial Retreat in Mount Everest Region
Researchers taking a new
look at the snow and ice
covering Mount Everest and
the national park that
surrounds it are finding
... > full story
Decline in Snow Cover Spells Trouble for Many Plants, Animals
For plants and animals
forced to tough out harsh
winter weather, the coverlet
of snow that blankets the
north country is a refuge, a
stable beneath-the-snow
... > full story
NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
A new NASA airborne mission
has created the first maps
of the entire snowpack of
two major mountain
watersheds in California and
Colorado, producing the most
... > full story
Scientists Investigate Release of Bromine in Polar Regions
Researchers have employed a
novel measurement device for
new studies in Alaska. ... > full story
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Sunlit Snow Triggers Atmospheric Cleaning, Ozone Depletion in the Arctic
April 24, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that sunlit snow is the major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and destroy ... > full story -
New Insight Into Accelerating Summer Ice Melt on the Antarctic Peninsula
April 14, 2013 — A new 1,000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost 10-fold, and mostly since the mid-20th century. Summer ice melt affects the stability ... > full story -
Snowflakes Falling on Cameras: What Snow Looks Like in Midair
April 10, 2013 — University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don’t look much like those ... > full story -
Dramatic Retreat of the Andean Glaciers Over the Last 30 Years
April 8, 2013 — The glaciers in the tropical Andes shrunk between 30 and 50% in 30 years, which represents the highest rate observed over the last three centuries. Scientists have recently published a summary which ... > full story -
Thin Clouds Drove Greenland's Record-Breaking 2012 Ice Melt
April 3, 2013 — If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Three million cubic kilometers of ice won't wash into the ocean overnight, but ... > full story -
Summer Melt Season Getting Longer on Antarctic Peninsula
March 27, 2013 — New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice ... > full story -
Climate Models Are Not Good Enough, Researcher Argues
March 25, 2013 — Only a few climate models were able to reproduce the observed changes in extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 ... > full story -
Canadian Arctic Glacier Melt Accelerating, Irreversible, Projections Suggest
March 12, 2013 — Ongoing glacier loss in the Canadian high Arctic is accelerating and probably irreversible, new model projections suggest. The Canadian high Arctic is home to the largest clustering of glacier ice ... > full story -
Glaciers Will Melt Faster Than Ever and Loss Could Be Irreversible Warn Scientists
March 7, 2013 — Canada's Arctic Archipelago glaciers will melt faster than ever in the next few centuries. Scientists have shown that 20 percent of the Canadian Arctic glaciers may have disappeared by the end of ... > full story -
Clues to Climate Cycles Dug from South Pole Snow Pit
February 25, 2013 — Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a deep pile of Antarctic snow hold clear chemical traces of global meteorological events, climate scientists from France have found. Anomalies in oxygen ... > full story
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