Even though 'glacial' is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed up and slow down on a daily -- even hourly -- basis in response to changes ...

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR).Detailed study of a Greenland ...

However, we can use the past to help us understand the future. When mapping the glacier calving front – the boundary between ice and ocean – traditionally human researchers painstakingly look ...

So there has been a retreat of the calving front, specifically between 2011 and 2015.” According to researchers at NASA and a team of scientists studying Pine Island, Seongsu Jeong and Ian Howat ...

This shows the massive calving front of the southernmost of four tributaries of Upernavik Icestream, Northwest Greenland. In the center a rising plume of sediment-laden subglacial meltwater ...