The orange stream color reflects oxidized iron, but also often indicates elevated heavy metal concentrations. This photo shows th mixing of an orange tributary with clearer waters of the Anaktok River. Photo: Josh Koch, US Geological Survey Warmer summers, melting...
Portal Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being...
Geneviève Pons is Director and Vice-President of the Europe Jacques Delors institute and co-chair of Antarctica 2020. Jérôme Chappellaz is glaciologist at CNRS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the former Director of the French Polar...
One Planet – Polar Summit has opened Wednesday in Paris. Scientists and researchers from forty countries around the world are gathering in the French capital for the first international summit dedicated to the cryosphere. Glaciers and poles are under great pressure...
The Ross Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. Here, too, researchers fear increased melting, as on other Antarctic ice shelves. Using new probes both in the water and from the air, an international team of scientists has now...
