New research finds that Hektoria, a grounded glacier in Antarctica, shrank with astounding speed in 2022 and 2023 ...
A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...
Glacier erosion is transforming Earth's landmass at an astonishing rate. Artificial intelligence reveals how melting ice ...
The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.
Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...
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The glaciers that carved Yosemite Valley left highly polished surfaces on many of the region's rock formations. These smooth, shiny surfaces, known as glacial polish, are common in the Sierra Nevada ...
The first experiments with glacial rock flour from Greenland show that it can capture significant amounts of CO2 and provide a wider array of nutrients than commercial organic fertilizers, resulting ...
Here, you can see how the glacier flour is distributed across the test plots. Subsequently, the glacier flour has been plowed into the soil, and grass has been sown across the entire field. New ...
A huge boulder sits perched on the side of a 40-foot cliff like some giant placed it there eons ago. It’s a must-see sight within the 95-acre preserve owned by Joshua’s Tract Conservation and Historic ...
Brian and Abby Thompson were hiking on Big Baldy Mountain in the Little Belt Mountains in August when they happened upon a distinctive land form that hikers might just mistake for a pile of talus, or ...