Glacier mice: these herds of moss‑balls roam the ice – and we’re uncovering their mysteries
Glacier mice aren’t rodents – they’re mysterious balls of moss that manage to live in one of the world’s harshest environments.
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Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
Why we’re drilling into the world’s highest glacier on Everest with a converted car wash
Meet the first team trying to understand the secrets of Mount Everest’s glaciers.
How glacier algae are challenging the way we think about evolution
Understanding the evolution of purple algae could help us to protect glaciers.
Life in the deep freeze – the revolution that changed our view of glaciers forever
Glaciers aren’t sterile wastelands – they’re chock-full of microscopic life.
To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world’s most remote fjords
Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.
Svalbard glaciers lost their protective buffer in the mid‑1980s and have been melting ever since
Our research found these remote Arctic islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands
A massive Antarctic ice shelf is showing signs of cracking and could trigger worldwide flooding.
Glaciers can give us clues about when a volcano might erupt
Like icy thermometers, glaciers overlying volcanoes shift according to temperature changes below.
Warm ice in Mount Everest’s glaciers makes them more sensitive to climate change – new research
Mean annual air temperature on Everest is –13°C at 7,000 metres elevation, and yet the ice in its highest glacier is only –3.3°C.
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