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We’re sipping hot chocolate and watching a mama bear and her cubs nose around the beach when we catch sight of a shower of ...
New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...
Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the ...
The pace of glacier loss has been increasing in recent years as the planet gets warmer, but extreme calving events are still relatively rare, and they are difficult to predict. A new study has ...
The calving glacier can create waves large enough to disrupt the ice without a moment’s notice, and it’s best to stay off the lake completely, according to Capital City Fire/Rescue.
That glacier calving wasn’t just a close call for Jobe. Last weekend, hundreds of Alaskans had flocked to the lake about an hour south of Anchorage to skate, bike, walk and sled the smooth surface.
Annual glacial outburst floods on Juneau’s Mendenhall River ... One theory about the ferocity of this year’s flood is that the calving at the glacier’s face might have exposed those existing ...
Field area and glacier retreat due to calving. (A) Location of Börgen Bay at the West Antarctic Peninsula. Bathymetry from ETOPO 1 global relief model (74).