The glaciers in Greenland are among those that are melting the fastest. Could they be preserved by geoengineering? Photo: Michael Wenger A new report from the University of Chicago presents various measures that could slow down the melting of glaciers in the Arctic...
Due to the massive ice loss in the polar regions, the mass shifts on the Earth’s surface are so great that the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. Photo: Julia Hager The redistribution of mass due to melting ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers has an...
The 14 July Glacier (Fjortende Julibreen) in the northwest of Spitsbergen is one of the glaciers whose calving front has retreated in recent decades. (Photo: Julia Hager) A research team developed a novel deep learning model that made it possible to create a...
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Photo: Michael Wenger Alanna Alevropoulos-Borrill and Nick Golledge, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington Some researchers have recently proposed the construction of artificial structures – submarine...
Survey above the former whaling station Grytviken. Photo: Dr. Pierre Tichit, CC-BY On South Georgia, invasive plants and invertebrates colonise the newly available habitats in front of the melting glaciers relatively quickly – which probably does not bode well...
