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Extreme glacier melt and climate change

Glaciers around the world are melting faster than in any previous decade since measurements began. Glaciers form when snow accumulates over many years and compresses into ice. Glaciers accumulate snow in the winter, and then melt ice in the summer. Cold temperatures, more snow, or both,... click to read more

Lauren J. Vargo | Research Fellow at Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

climate change

global warming

glaciers

extreme melt

New Zealand

Reading time 3 min

published on Nov 10, 2020

Past ice, future ice

In order to predict the impacts of Global Warming, scientists develop climate models that attempt to represent our real, complicated climate as closely as possible. Climate is the intertwined system of the Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and ice. If we can understand how these variables interacted... click to read more

Melissa Reusche | Master Student at Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

climate change

Arctic

glaciers

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 23, 2019