Literature references: Please include the following literature citations in addition to the data citation above: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) is an international initiative with the ...

This content was published on Jan 5, 2025 Even though 2024 was another bad year for Alpine glaciers, their melting may release microorganisms potentially useful to medicine and industry.

"Especially in glaciers, there are microorganisms that have been around for thousands of years that, if they melt, our immune system doesn't recognize. Then, we have another problem, because viruses ...

Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park continues to melt at an alarming rate and may be gone in 10 years. John Pomeroy, one of the world’s leading snow and ice hydrologists, said there has been about ...

Melt off from small mountain glaciers and ice caps will contribute about 12 centimetres to world sea-level increases by 2100, according to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience. The ...

All songs on this long-awaited second solo CD are from the musical Waiting for the Glaciers to Melt by Brian Lane Green. Nominated for BroadwayÕs prestigious Tony Award for Best Actor in a ...

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive ... In these images, three major ...

while addressing the urgent challenges posed by accelerated glacier melting. More than 275,000 glaciers worldwide cover approximately 700,000 km². Glaciers and ice sheets store about 70% of the global ...

The researchers suggested that this is due to their relative geographical isolation, and the natural selection that is already a powerful force in extreme regions like streams that are fed by melting ...

For researchers keen on studying the glacier, the clock is ticking, as human-caused climate change has exposed the long-preserved ice to melting. Like notes in the pages of a logbook, the gas ...

As glaciers continue to melt at unprecedented rates, the 2025 IYGP will promote research, policy advancements, and action on glacier-related climate adaptation. This launch event will begin with a ...