glacier

Why the most climate-resistant glaciers are hiding in plain sight

2:54pm September 30, 2024

In the American West, white glaciers and snow fields are outnumbered by long-overlooked “rock glaciers.” The rock covering these vast hunks of ice makes them far less affected by warming temperatures.

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A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier.

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A skinny robot documents the forces eroding a massive Antarctic glacier

4:13pm February 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Scientists got their first up-close look at what's eating away part of Antarctica's Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential.

Though they're called ice worms, the creatures Hotaling (right) and his colleagues study on the glaciers of Mount Rainier can't handle the slightest bit of freezing. If temperatures dip even slightly below zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), Hot

It's Summer, And That Means The Mysterious Return Of Glacier Ice Worms

12:24pm July 13, 2021

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

On mountaintop glaciers of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, billions of tiny black worms are tunneling upward to the barren, icy surface. What lures them, and how do they survive the frozen depths?

People take part in a ceremony to mark the "death" of the Pizol glacier on Sunday in eastern Switzerland.

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Hundreds Attend Funeral For Pizol, A Disappearing Glacier

4:58pm September 22, 2019

by Gabriela Saldivia

On Sunday, more than 200 people paid their respects at a ceremony to mark the "death" of the glacier in the Swiss Alps. Researchers say it's disappearing due to rising temperatures.

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A Mountaineer Writes A Firsthand Report From The World's Melting Glaciers

8:02am January 20, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with journalist Dahr Jamail about his new book, "The End of Ice," on climate change and its consequences to nature and humans.

The wind direction from the fire in western Greenland has largely blown smoke toward the island's ice sheet and away from communities.

Greenland Is Still Burning, But The Smoke May Be The Real Problem

1:02pm August 15, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

Wildfires are still burning in western Greenland, close to the Arctic island's ice sheet. As the fires burn, they release black particles that can coat the ice and snow, and make it melt more quickly.

Shoes and clothing are visible a glacier in southwestern Switzerland where two bodies were found.

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Bodies Found In Swiss Glacier Believed To Be Couple Missing Since 1942

6:58pm July 18, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Two bodies have been discovered in a shrinking glacier by a worker from a ski lift company, according to Swiss media, and they are believed to be a couple who disappeared some 75 years ago.

The perimeter of the shrinking Chaney Glacier in Montana's Glacier National Park in 1966, 1998, 2005 and 2015.

Disappearing Montana Glaciers A 'Bellwether' Of Melting To Come?

2:46pm May 11, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Glaciers there are "an early indicator of the kinds of changes that are going to occur elsewhere," a scientist says. Since 1966, the glaciers in Glacier National Park shrunk an average of 39 percent.

About 80 percent of the people who come to the Mendenhall Glacier in the summer are tourists.

Visitors To A Shrinking Alaskan Glacier Get A Lesson On Climate Change

12:26am July 28, 2016

by Elizabeth Jenkins

On a busy day, thousands of tourists visit the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau. The U.S. Forest Service wants those people to take in the dramatic views but also consider why the glacier is receding.

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Each province represented at the festival used to carve out heavy chunks of ice from the glacier — symbol of water and life — to bring back to their communities.

The Sacred Glacier Is Melting But The Festival Goes On

7:00am May 21, 2016

by Paula Dupraz-Dobias

That's the sad situation facing thousands of Peruvians who climb a mountain for the 'Snow Star' festival, which starts on Sunday.