The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth, and now we can see it—literally. As rising temperatures accelerate the pace of Arctic glacier retreat, nearly 2,500 kilometers of new ...

The Space for Shore project utilizes radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission to provide precise, year-over-year insights into glacier retreat and calving intensity, particularly in areas ...

The Arctic Sunrise was too far away to see the glacier break apart, ... An aerial view of the Arctic Sunrise in the Arctic, on Sep. 15, 2020. Daniella Zalcman—Greenpeace.

On Aug. 29, political scientist Ian Bremmer shared side-by-side images that compare how an Arctic glacier has changed over time. The black-and-white image on top of the post shows a person in a ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due ...

The glacier had been in significant retreat since 1990, but was hit especially hard by the extremely warm summers of the last couple years. The glacier's destruction is likely a sign of more to come.

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...

Though the exact age of the glacier is unknown, it falls between 770,000 years and 2.4 million years, the age of the fossil forest that lay below the ice. At that time, the High Arctic was merely ...

If and when the Thwaites Glacier melts, it will result in nearly 0.6 metres of sea level rise, but it holds back another three metres of sea level rise lurking within the Antarctic continent.