A 19-kilometer fragment, almost the size of Paris, broke off from the world's largest iceberg. This is an event that is happening for the first time and it is being tracked by satellite.
It is a huge ice shelf that...
One of the oldest icebergs in the world is about to collide with a remote British island. It is a wildlife refuge, and the enormous ice structure, one of the largest in existence, threatens to alter its ecosystem.
This giant,...
The record-breaking melting in Antarctica, recorded in 2024, is a fact. The melting of ice sheets, even in traditionally cold regions, has reached worrying levels.
One of the cases that caught the attention of scientists is that of the Amery...
In 1850, **the Pyrenees housed 52 glaciers;** by 2020, that number had decreased to 19, and currently **only 14 active glaciers survive**. In a few years, five of these glaciers ceased to be considered as such, (https://noticiasambientales.com/ciencia/glaciares-en-retroceso-a-nivel-global-una-crisis-alarmante/). The rest...
The United Kingdom's Polar Observation and Modeling Center (CPOM) confirmed alarming data about the melting in Greenland. They reported the first measurements of the thickness change of the ice sheet in the country.
Scientists used data from the CryoSat satellites...
Between 1920 and 2020, snowfall in the Alps has decreased by an average of 34%, according to a study coordinated by Eurac Research and published in the International Journal of Climatology.
This study also examined how altitude and climatological parameters...
The **Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation** (AMOC) transports heat northward across the **Atlantic Ocean** and is crucial for the **climate** and **marine ecosystems**.
Currently, it is weaker than at any other time in the last 1000 years, possibly due to **global...
Glaciers are essential not only for their visual appeal, but also as key water resources that affect water availability and the stability of numerous ecosystems. A new study by ETH Zurich and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, published in The Cryosphere,...
At the end of 2016, scientists detected a crack in the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, which led to the detachment of iceberg A-68 in July 2017.
This iceberg, with more than double the size of Luxembourg...
