Glacial calvings and collapses of entire ice walls are common in Antarctica and in polar regions in general. The resulting underwater tunamis are likely to have correspondingly more important roles than previously thought. Image: Dr Michael Wenger On the one hand,...
Kongsbreen (King’s Glacier) is a two-part ice tongue at the far end of Kongsfjorden in western Svalbard. Further west lies Svalbard’s northernmost settlement, Ny Ålesund on the southern side of the fjord and the tourist-popular island of Blomstrandhalvøya...
Where does a glacier begin, where does the ice sheet end? This question is not so easy to answer in Antarctica. Ann Windnagel and her team set the boundaries and ranked the largest ice masses by area (excluding ice sheets). (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) Again and again...
Since September 2018, six lasers from the ATLAS instrument aboard the 1.5-ton, 2.5×1.9×3.8-meter satellite have been firing at Earth from an altitude of about 490 kilometers, measuring ice sheets and sea ice thickness in the polar regions. Image: NASA...
Konrad Steffen (68) was one of the best-known researchers in Switzerland. The former director of the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape WSL shaped Swiss climate, glacier and polar research for years. He died in an accident in Greenland in...
