Ice shelves are the last brakes on the flow of glaciers into the sea from the upper reaches. Image: David Vaughan / British Antarctic Survey Thinning, shrinking, sliding and mega-cracks… In Antarctica, ice shelves are losing their footing. According to the...
This photo shows 60 Starlink satellites stacked on top of each other before they were released from SpaceX’s Falcon 9-rocket in 2019. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The new Low Earth Orbit satellites could make the country dependent on a foreign tech giant but could...
When nature takes her paintbrushes, the result is the Belcher Islands. Located on Hudson Bay, they are home to the small community of Sanikiluaq and its thousand inhabitants. Image: Landsat 7 / USGS From the convolutions of frozen rivers to concentrations of...
Image: NASA / Landsat 9 / OLI-2 Our planet’s most active and southernmost volcano did not escape the attention of Nasa observers when clouds freed it from its shackles at the end of November. Its lava lake is still molten. The Landsat 9 Earth observation...
Julienne Stroeve is a polar climatologist who works in particular on ice and snow modelling. Picture: Michael Wenger The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum...
