Researchers have found that the Antarctic Peninsula is greening at an accelerating rate as temperatures rise. Satellite imagery shows a tenfold increase in vegetation cover over the last four decades,…
A joint study by NOAA and NASA has found that Earth's reflectivity, or albedo, has significantly declined over the past two decades. This change is primarily attributed to a reduction…
Researchers have identified a massive, ancient landscape of hills and valleys preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet for millions of years. The discovery, made using satellite data and radio-echo…
Researchers have discovered that warm seawater is being pushed deep beneath the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, causing much faster melting than previously modeled. This tidal pumping mechanism suggests that…
