Snow and Avalanches News
May 21, 2024
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May 20, 2024 Scientists have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change. This low was a one-in-a-2000-year event without climate change and four times more ...
May 20, 2024 Glaciologists show evidence of warm ocean water intruding kilometers beneath grounded ice at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The findings suggest that existing climate models are underestimating the impact of ocean and ice interactions in ...
May 14, 2024 Monitoring the effects of climate change in Greenland has been made much easier with an innovative ...
May 3, 2024 Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf ...
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May 1, 2024 A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to ...
Apr. 22, 2024 New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study sheds new light on ...
Apr. 16, 2024 While most lakes around the world are experiencing shorter durations of ice cover, the length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century, possibly ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly ...
Mar. 27, 2024 The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica's ice ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79 N-Glacier is losing. According to recent measurements, the thickness of the ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers recently reported on the science behind its special concrete, that can warm itself up when it snows, or as temperatures approach ...
Mar. 15, 2024 There's a new metric that provides a more holistic look at how much water is stored in snowpack, and for how ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Researchers have conducted the first large-scale observation and modeling study of northwest Greenland's Petermann Glacier. Their findings reveal the ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 13, 2024 Annual snow cover days in all major skiing regions are projected to decrease dramatically as a result of climate change, with 1 in 8 ski areas losing all natural snow cover this century under high ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...
Mar. 5, 2024 While summer sea ice loss in the Arctic is inevitable, it can be reversed if the planet cools down, researchers ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Scientists found unexpected evidence the area of polynyas around Antarctica is increasing dramatically, and it follows an intriguing cycle, growing and shrinking roughly every 16 ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Research unearthed new information to help scientists better understand circulation patterns of ocean water around glaciers. In the summers of 2014 and 2019, a group of pioneers in glacial research ...
Feb. 28, 2024 New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. A 6.5-mile crack formed in 2012 over 5-and-a-half minutes, showing that ice shelves can effectively shatter ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Among the vast expanse of Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier, the world's widest glacier measuring about 80 miles on the western edge of the continent. Despite its size, the massive landform ...
Feb. 23, 2024 Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica's land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared with 50 years ago, research shows. More than a ...
Feb. 18, 2024 Instead of carrying the babies until they hatched, as in most species of sea spiders, one parent (likely the father) spent two days attaching the eggs to the rocky bottom where they developed for ...
Feb. 13, 2024 An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite ...
Feb. 8, 2024 Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk suddenly and dramatically at the end of the Last Ice Age, around eight thousand years ago. The evidence, ...
Feb. 5, 2024 The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago. Now, a ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate ...
Jan. 23, 2024 The behavior of specific weather patterns and their impact on power faults could be used to develop a weather pattern - conditioned fault forecasting system for power system ...
Jan. 15, 2024 The Arctic, Earth's icy crown, is experiencing a climate crisis like no other. It's heating up at a furious pace -- four times faster than the rest of our planet. Researchers are pulling ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Human activity, from burning fossil fuels and fireplaces to the contaminated dust produced by mining, alters Earth's atmosphere in countless ways. Records of these impacts over time are ...
Jan. 10, 2024 A new study confirms that spring snowpacks across the Northern Hemisphere have shrunk significantly over the past 40 years due to human-driven climate change, putting hundreds of millions of people ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Reducing air pollution to levels similar to those during the coronavirus pandemic could protect the glaciers in the Himalayas and prevent them from disappearing by the end of the century. This is the ...
Dec. 19, 2023 A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow. But to reach the ground, snowflakes are swept into the turbulent atmosphere, swirling through the air instead of plummeting ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Even in the precipitation-heavy Pacific Northwest, more frequent heatwaves are threatening a key source of water supply. A Washington State University study that intended to look at snow melting ...
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- Atlantic Walrus More Vulnerable Than Ever to Arctic Warming
- Antarctica's Glacial Border Migrates for Miles With the Tide
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- New Rivers in the North? Scientists Identify How the Dissection of Arctic Landscapes Is Changing With Accelerating Climate Change
- Fall Snow Levels Can Predict a Season's Total Snowpack in Some Western States
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- Bursting Air Bubbles May Play a Key Role in How Glacier Ice Melts
- Stability Inspection for West Antarctica Shows: Marine Ice Sheet Is Not Destabilized Yet, but Possibly on a Path to Tipping
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- Montreal Protocol Is Delaying First Ice-Free Arctic Summer
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- Researchers Correlate Arctic Warming to Extreme Winter Weather in Midlatitude and Its Future
- Ice Sheets Can Collapse Faster Than Previously Thought Possible
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- Entire Populations of Antarctic Seabirds Fail to Breed Due to Extreme, Climate-Change-Related Snowstorms
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- Greenland Ice Sheet: Short-Lived Ice Streams
- Complete Picture of Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Thaw Cycle Highlights Sea Ice Response to Climate Change
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- Salt More Important Than Cold Polar Temps in Sea Ice Formation
- Arctic Vegetation Has a Major Impact on Warming