The satellite image shows the Pine Island glacier in 2011, when a 30-kilometer-long crack formed and led to the calving of a 720-square-kilometer iceberg. The glacier itself is about 250 kilometers long and its catchment area is about 10 percent of the West Antarctic...
The viruses found in the small meltwater pools on glaciers, so-called cryoconit holes, in Greenland, in Spitsbergen and in the Alps, have remarkably similar genomes. Photo: Christopher Bellas An international team of scientists studied life in small meltwater pools on...
Thwaites Glacier is one the largest catchment area of glaciers on the west side of Antarctica. The ice surface, which covers an estimated 192,000 square kilometres, has contributed significantly to the current sea level rise and continues to melt at a rapid rate....
The research expedition led the Japanese scientists to the Shirase Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. Normally, the bay is inaccessible to ships even in summer, because the sea ice which is connected to the land, also called fast ice, makes it impossible...
Konrad Steffen has been the director of the Federal Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape since 2012. Only last year he was re-elected until June 2021. Picture: WSL The director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape WSL, Professor Konrad...
