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Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges of water into Juneau for 3 straight summers.
When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.
Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is a disaster in slow motion, a polar scientist writes. But in a rare bit of good news, the worst-case scenario may be off the table.
In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.
The soil was extracted during the Cold War from beneath one of the U.S military’s most unusual bases, then forgotten for decades.
Glaciologists are discovering new ways surface meltwater alters the internal structure of ice sheets, and raising an alarm that sea level rise could be much more abrupt than current models forecast.
Rocks deposited by vanishing glaciers in the Southern Alps thousands of years ago hold climate clues about the past, painting a bleak picture about the long-term survival of alpine ice in New Zealand.
This seemingly one-off heatwave may be a harbinger for the future under climate change.
Soot from research bases and sightseeing cruises is melting millions of tonnes of Antarctic snow every summer
Lakes in the northern hemisphere are rapidly losing their ice cover due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. The only way to preserve lake ice is to limit GHG emissions and slow down climate change.
Greenland’s melting ice sheets threaten to significantly hamper humanity’s efforts to mitigate climate change.
New research shows how fibre-optic cables can monitor the hidden structure of glaciers, teaching us about past and future ice flow.
Auckland’s extreme drought and the rapid retreat of glaciers in the Southern Alps both highlight how important long-term observations are for water management policy and planning.
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Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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Faculty Research Scientist, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Postdoctoral researcher and professor, Universitat de Barcelona
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Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
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Meteorologist/forecaster, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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Geologist and geomorphologist, GNS Science
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Professor of Glaciology, Fulbright Scholar, University of Tromsø
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PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow, Antarctic Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, Department of Biology, State University of New York at New Paltz
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Ecology, University of Wollongong
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PhD Researcher, Climate Science, Keele University
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Atmospheric scientist, University of Tasmania
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Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology; Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Global Water Academy, York University, Canada