2025 is the UN International Year of Glaciers. One last cheer, before we bid them farewell, I suppose.
From my archive
2025 is the UN International Year of Glaciers. One last cheer, before we bid them farewell, I suppose.
From my archive
Saint Mary's Glacier in St Mary's, Colorado
Colorado’s most beloved glacier is an imposter.#glaciers #snow #section-Atlas
Saint Mary's Glacier
RNZ: NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change
The Lewis Glacier in Mount Kenya national park. Mount Kenya, Africa’s second-highest peak, is home to rapidly shrinking glaciers, which are vital for nearby ecosystems and communities. Lewis Glacier has lost over 90% of its mass since 1934. This dramatic loss is driven by rising temperatures and declining rainfall, both tied by experts to the global climate crisis, Mount Kenya, #Kenya
Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images
NZ's glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice—as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nz-glaciers-lost-ice-landscapes.html
#Scientists discover hidden 'plumbing' that's driving #Antarctic #icesheet into the #ocean
Maps created by combining different models of #glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath #Antarctica's ice. Understanding how these vary is important for accurately predicting how much ice will flow into the ocean, and how quickly it will move. Current models predict that ice melt from Antarctica could result in #sealevelrise up to 12in (30cm) by 2100.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/scientists-discover-hidden-plumbing-thats-driving-antarctic-ice-sheet-into-the-ocean
#Greenland’s #glaciers are falling apart faster than expected
New 3D study shows meltwater driving fissures deeper into the glacial ice.
The study found that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously detected, and somewhere between 50-90% of the water flowing through the Greenland Ice Sheet goes through crevasses, which can warm deeply submerged portions of the #glacier and increase lubrication between the base of the #icesheet and the bedrock it flows over.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/greenlands-glaciers-are-falling-apart-faster-than-expected/
A World Without Glaciers? Scientists Warn of Alarming Ice Loss…
Over the past decade, ice loss in densely populated regions like Europe has accelerated at an increasingly rapid pace... #glaciers #climatechange
"University of Idaho researchers have developed a mathematical model that simplifies the way scientists understand changes in glacier movement. This new approach demonstrates that diverse patterns of ice flow—ranging from short-term fluctuations to multi-year trends—can be explained using a single set of fundamental equations".
#mathematicalmodels #glaciers #climatechange
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-term-glacier-behavior-climate-implications.html
Since the year 2000, melting #glaciers around the world have lost 273 billion tons of ice annually, on average, a new study by researchers at the University of Zurich has found.
Read more: https://sustainabilityonline.net/?p=9314
Ancient seafloor spreading 15 million years ago caused sea levels to plummet | Live Science…
Today we are witnessing rapid global #sealevelrise attributable mostly to #climate change-driven melting of #icesheets and #glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also occurs over millions of years as geological processes gradually reshape Earth's ocean basins... #geology #geologicaltime
A World Without Glaciers? Scientists Warn of Alarming Ice Loss…
Over the past decade, ice loss in densely populated regions like Europe has accelerated at an increasingly rapid pace... #glaciers #climatechange
Norway’s Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Out Troves of Lost Artifacts : ScienceAlert…
#Norway is at the forefront of this emerging field of research, called glacial #archaeology. With about 4,500 artifacts discovered, the country claims more than half of the planet's glacial archaeology findings... #glaciers
the stuff we leave behind!
#Archaeologists are finding mysterious ancient objects on Norway's melting #glaciers. Take a look. https://buff.ly/4kgIAfJ
BBC.com: Climate change: World’s glaciers melting faster than ever recorded…
The world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date... #climatechange #globalwarming #glaciers
Glacial Melting Is Accelerating, Driving Sea Level Rise and Depleting Freshwater: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/glaciers-melting-sea-level-rise-freshwater-depletion.html