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OMG Mission: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought (Video)

By Kasandra Brabaw published

Thanks to rising temperatures, glaciers in Greenland are melting faster than scientists previously thought — and a new NASA video shows how researchers are tracking the feet per day of changes.

Space
Giant craters along the floor of the Barents Sea were created when methane gases erupted about 11,600 years ago. Today, smaller seeps (vertical lines) still bubble up around the craters.

Huge Underwater Eruptions Blasted Craters into Arctic Seafloor

By Stephanie Pappas published

The Barents Sea near Svalbard is dotted with seafloor craters created about 11,600 years ago by methane hydrate eruptions.

Arctic
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Huge Hidden Landforms Under Antarctica Contribute to Ice Sheet's Melting

By Kacey Deamer published

Giant sediment ridges about the size of the Eiffel Tower are carving the ice sheet from below.

Antarctica
Meltwater from Grinnell, Gem and Salamander Glaciers feeds the teal lakes of Grinnell Valley in Glacier National Park.

Glacier National Park Is Losing Its Glaciers

By Andrea Thompson published

Over the past 50 years, 39 of the park's glaciers have shrunk dramatically, some by as much as 85 percent.

Climate Change
Warming temperatures due to climate change have caused the Morteratsch glacier in Switzerland to retreat in length at a rate of about 98 feet to 131 feet (30 to 40 meters) per year.

Snow Machines Could Rescue Melting Swiss Glacier

By Kacey Deamer published

How do you save a glacier? Refreeze it using snow machines.

Climate Change
Between 2009 and 2015, the Columbia Glacier retreated by a whopping 4 miles (6.5 kilometers), the study researchers said.

Photographic Proof of Climate Change: Time-Lapse Images of Retreating Glaciers

By Jeanna Bryner published

A team of scientists has put together photographic "proof" of climate change, revealing time-lapse photo couplets, or before/after images, of retreating glaciers.

Climate Change
A stream flows through the toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier in Kluane National Park, Yukon. In 2016, this channel allowed the glacier's meltwater to drain in a different direction than normal, resulting in the Slims River water being rerouted to a different rive

How Global Warming Diverted a River

By Andrea Thompson published

Climate Change
About 700 million years ago, during the Cryogenian glaciation, runaway glaciers made Earth look like a snowball.

How often do ice ages happen?

By Laura Geggel published

The last ice age led to the rise of the woolly mammoth and the vast expansion of glaciers, but it's just one of many that have chilled Earth throughout the planet's 4.5-billion-year history.

Planet Earth
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Balmy! Antarctica Hit Record-Breaking 63 Degrees F in 2015

By Laura Geggel published

Weather
A huge crack, that's now some 109 miles (175 km) long, can be seen in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf in this aerial image captured on Nov. 10, 2016, as part of NASA's IceBridge mission.

Colossal (and Growing) Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf Seen in New Video

By Jeanna Bryner published

A chunk of ice covering an area larger than the state of Rhode Island is about to snap off Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf.

Antarctica
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