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Photographer James Balog is best known for his death-defying trips to Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, where he's documented the melting icecaps using photos and time-lapse images. But he's also made stunning images of cyborgs and "techno sapiens." Balog...
Tags: James Balog, ice survey, extreme ice, Iceland, Reykjavík, Extreme Ice Survey, Balog, Climate change, Effects of global warming, Year of birth missing, Glaciers, Environment
A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two walked back toward a settlement...
Tags: Toronto, Canada, Polar Bear, Bear, Snow, Glaciers, Hudson Bay, hypothermia, Rescuers, parachuted, snowmobile, Teen, Inuit, allnews, Sea ice, Bears, Inuit culture, Environment, polar bears
A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers. Published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, the research offers stark evidence of how...
Tags: Human, Erosion, Comparable, World Largest, Rivers, Glaciers, Study, Research
Ice, when heated, is supposed to melt. That’s why a collection of glaciers in the Southeast Himalayas stymies those who know what they did 9,000 years ago. While most other Central Asian glaciers retreated under hotter summer temperatures, this...
Research has shown that North American glaciers have been melting steadily for the past 50 years. A report just released by the U.S. Geological Surveyunder the Obama administration focused on three Northwest glaciers that are representative of a thousand...
Tags: global warming, Obama, USGS, glaciers, India, China, Northwest, Alaska, water
Found in the middle of the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, the lake at Borebukta has emerged after a glacier melted forming what looks like a pool of love. Although it seems an unlikely place to find such symbol of romance but it appears...
Tags: Mother Nature, cupid, pool of love, global warming, glaciers, ice melt, heart-shaped lake, Norwegian islands
Scientists are shocked with recent data that shows the Antarctic Ice shelf is melting faster then anyone anticipated. Data suggests that global ice melt could raise sea levels around the world as much a 120 Centimetres (3+ feet) this century. That...
Tags: antarctic, glaciers, global warming
Glaciers are melting and they are melting fast. The reservoirs of water once melted will replenish the lakes in the short-term, may even flood some but in the long-term once this resource diminishes then the long term situation is...
Tags: Glaciers, environment, global warming, glacier melting, Tibet, China
The island is 4,000 kilometres south west of Western Australia and is home to two active volcanoes. Australian Antarctic Division researchers found that an area known as "Elephant Spit" was no longer attached to the mainland. Senior Environmental Policy...
Tags: environment, glaciers, Heard Island
According to a report in the Telegraph, with the help of a robot submarine, the polar scientists will get a glimpse of the unexplored region beneath one of Antarctica's most puzzling glaciers...Scientists believe that unusual melting at the glacier's...
Tags: submarine, british, glaciers, ocean, British Antarctic Survey, Antarctica, antarctic glacier