An atmospheric river was responsible for the extreme heatwave in March 2022, captured here by infrared satellites at 23:00 UTC on March 18. The red arrows show the course of the atmospheric river. Image: Université Grenoble Alpes The unprecedented heatwave that hit...
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is formed by many individual glaciers. Some of them extend into the Southern Ocean, forming massive ice shelves. Photo: Michael Wenger Scientists still struggle to predict how much sea levels will rise in the future as a result of global...
The East Antarctic coast shows impressive ice sculptures. Behind it lies the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest on Earth. Photo: Shuai Yan/University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences Antarctica still holds many mysteries: What did it look like before it...
The candidate island was already visible on satellite images in 1989. Only after the collapse of the Conger ice shelf does it become clear that the ice mound must be an island. Photo: Joshua Stevens/Landsat/ICESat-2 Where snow and ice cover the landscape and the...
Tabular icebergs are parts of ice shelves that protrude into the sea along the coast in Antarctica and slow down the glaciers behind them. Large icebergs like this one with an edge length of more than 30 kilometers are not only pretty photo motifs, but also objects of...