The recent heat wave that baked both Europe and North America also had a major impact on the world’s largest island: temperatures across Greenland spiked during the same time period, causing a major melt event that released 18 billion tons of water over a three-day period, enough to cover the entirety ofread more
An ice shelf in East Antarctica the size of Rome collapsed on March 15, the culmination of decades of an increasing warming trend seen at both of the planet’s poles. The collapse, announced in a tweet posted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and NASA planetary scientist Catherine Walker, took scientists by surprise,read more
Regions in both the Antarctic and Arctic have simultaneously experienced freakish heat waves, sending temperatures soaring 60 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, respectively, an unprecedented event that occurred despite the fact that at any given time each pole is experiencing opposite seasons. “They are opposite seasons. You don’t seeread more
A team of researchers studying the dynamics of meltwater lakes that form on the surface of Greenland’s glaciers has discovered a previously-undiscovered source of heat that is melting the world’s largest island’s ice sheets from the bottom up: the sheer force of the meltwater draining to the bottom of theread more