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More than a decade in the making, NISAR will lift off from Sriharikota on 30 July. It was built jointly by ISRO and NASA’s ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet has once again taken on a surreal summer appearance, this time captured in striking detail by NASA’s ...
With the arrival of summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet has adopted its ‘summer look,’ revealing a few odd shapes and other ...
Mike Lanchin hears from the leading glaciologist Pedro Svarka who saw it happen. Photo: Satellite images showing the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in early 2002 (Science Photo Library) ...
This image of the Larsen Ice Shelf B was taken in 2002 by the satellite Envisat. Earlier levels extents are marked. Since Envisat was launched in 2002, the ice shelf has declined further.ESA ...
A new iceberg that was larger than the size of Greater London has broken off of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. Satellite images captured the split, which occurred on Jan 22, near the British ...
Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
To explore that possible link, Wille and his colleagues analysed weather and climate data along with satellite images to spot atmospheric rivers that reached Antarctica between 2000 and 2020.
Scientists are concerned because an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area that had long been thought to be stable.
New map shows vulnerability of Antarctic ice to self-fracking Over half of the ice shelves seem susceptible to process that doomed Larsen B.