glacier

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Shrinking Arctic glaciers are unearthing a new source of methane

06 Jul 2023

As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent...

Reconnaissance flight over the Thwaites glacier , Credit: US National Science Foundation/US Antarctic Program

UK and US join forces to understand how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

30 Apr 2018

A Cambridge researcher will lead one of eight projects in a new joint UK-US research programme that is one of the most detailed and extensive...

Glacial archaeologists systematically survey the mountainous areas of Oppland, Norway

Frozen in time: glacial archaeology on the roof of Norway

24 Jan 2018

Artefacts revealed by melting ice patches in the high mountains of Oppland shed new light on ancient high-altitude hunting.

Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and glacial erosion

02 Feb 2016

Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity...

Scientist explores remains of supraglacial lake after it has drained

Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought

29 Sep 2014

A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometres and contains enough ice to raise sea levels worldwide by...

Isfjord, Ilulissat, Diskobay, West Greenland

Lakes discovered beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

28 Nov 2013

The subglacial lakes are the first to be identified in Greenland.

Tabular iceberg. The production of tabular icebergs is a major mechanism of mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

1.5 million years of climate history revealed after scientists solve mystery of the deep

10 Aug 2012

Study successfully reconstructed temperature from the deep sea to reveal how global ice volume has varied over the glacial-interglacial cycles of the...

Ice Age, interrupted

09 Jan 2012

Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the...

'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet

01 Jan 2012

In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake...

Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history

01 Nov 2009

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.