A Cessna 185 zigzagged a tight back-and-forth pattern along Alaska’s southern coast earlier this summer, the pilot intent on ...

Glaciologist at ETH Zurich and Head of the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland, Matthias Huss, checks his equipment on the ...

Martin Stuefer, the director of the Hyperspectral Imaging Lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is both a pilot and researcher.

The snowfall from last winter disappeared a month sooner than usual, after two early hot spells. Huge volumes of exposed ice ...

Glaciologists Mark Ednie (left) and Rod Smith (right), along with author Andrew Findlay traverse the still wide but shrinking mass of the Peyto glacier while measuring ice melt. Meltwater skims the ...

If you want to learn more about human history, you can turn to written records or archaeological artifacts or huge chunks of ice. That's right. Glaciers and other kinds of ice can store clues that ...

UC San Diego glaciologist Helen Fricker was a Ph.D. student when she started using a measurement technique called altimetry. It’s done using a satellite orbiting the earth. “On board is a laser. It's ...

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, ...

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