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Ice and snow along a rocky coastline in Antarctica

The Mountains Beneath the Ice: Why Antarctica Frozen Millions of Years Before the Arctic

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New models suggest that the breakup of Gondwana triggered profound processes that elevated East Antarctica. The high mountains allowed snow to survive in the summer and develop into the world's largest ice sheet.
The melting Forka Pass glacier in Switzerland. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Not just ice: New study reveals the animals that live on glaciers

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Subtitle: Global review in PNAS finds 152 animal species associated with glaciers and ice sheets, including 73 species recorded only in glacial habitats. Glacier retreat could wipe out entire ecosystems
Four images illustrating the effects of the climate crisis in Europe: heat, retreating snow and glaciers, fires and abnormal sea temperatures. Credit: WMO / ECMWF / Copernicus Climate Change Service

Europe in 2025: Heat waves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Circle, peak fires and retreat of snow and glaciers

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The ECMWF and WMO European Climate Status Report found that 95% of Europe experienced above-average heat, 70% of rivers flowed below average, and more than 10,000 square kilometers burned.
Once considered a stable, ancient giant, Glacier A-23A is now gradually breaking apart as it drifts into warmer waters. The glacier, which broke away from the Pilchner Ice Shelf in 1986, survived nearly four decades before it began to disintegrate on its journey north. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Michala Garrison, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.

NASA has documented the collapse of the giant iceberg A-23A – one of the largest and oldest in the world

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NASA satellites have documented the disintegration of the A-23A glacier, which broke away from Antarctica in 1986 and survived for almost four decades before starting to break up on its journey north.
Remains of a glacier in Svalbard, Norway. Credit: Fabian Maussion

The glaciers are lost. Prepare for massive sea level rise

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Even a temporary increase of 3 degrees Celsius will cause massive and irreversible glacier loss – up to 16% more than in a situation where the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit is not exceeded – which will affect sea levels.
The crack in the ice shelf Larsen C. Photo: NASA.

Careful, the ice is broken

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Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Photo: NASA

NASA: Melting ice in West Antarctica seems unstoppable

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Warming also in the south

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Glacier in the water. Imaging: ICE DREAM by Dassault Systèmes

To simulate moving a glacier to irrigate deserts - in a simulation

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Greenland's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

The ice sheets in the Swiss Alps are disappearing

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Greenland's sea ice has reached an 800-year low

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

It's written on the ice, soon it won't be anymore - the glaciers in the North Pole are melting at a dizzying rate

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Antarctica: Iceberg B-15A broke up

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

In 10 years, the ice at the North Pole melted by 1.8 meters.

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