West Antarctic Glacier Retreat: What the 2014 Research Actually Found
Research published in 2014 examined long-term ice loss in parts of West Antarctica. Its geographical scope matters: the findings concerned ...
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Lake Hodgson: Microbial Evidence from Antarctic Sediments
Sediments from Lake Hodgson offered researchers a way to investigate life associated with a formerly subglacial Antarctic lake. The study e...
Greenland’s Buried Canyon: Reading the Landscape Through Radar
A canyon beneath Greenland’s ice sheet became visible to science through radar measurements rather than an ordinary camera. The 2013 study ...
The 2013 Arctic Sea-Ice Rebound Was Not Global Cooling
Arctic summer sea ice covered more ocean in 2013 than during the exceptionally low 2012 season. That year-to-year increase did not reverse ...
What Baffin Island Plants Revealed About Arctic Summer Warmth
Plants emerging from retreating ice can carry evidence of how long a landscape remained covered. A 2013 study led by Gifford Miller used th...
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Antarctica’s Coldest Snow Surfaces: Satellite Estimates and Weather Records
Satellite measurements revealed exceptionally cold surface pockets on East Antarctica’s high plateau. The 2013 announcement described a −93...
If Earth’s Land Ice Melted: What the Sea-Level Maps Mean
A map showing familiar coastlines disappearing beneath higher seas is a powerful way to visualise how much water is stored in ice. It is al...
Iain Stewart’s Avalanche Documentary: Stories and Snow Science
Iain Stewart's avalanche documentary looks beyond the white cloud sweeping down a mountainside. Through historical accounts and researc...
Antarctic Icebergs in Motion: Drift, Collapse and Meltwater
An Antarctic iceberg can seem like a fixed landmark until a film speeds up the view. Gaps open, blocks drift together, and a seemingly soli...
Tibetan Monasteries and Snow-Leopard Conservation
Snow-leopard conservation can involve the people and institutions already connected to a mountain landscape. Research on Tibetan Buddhist m...
Antarctic Condition 1 Weather: The View through a Station Door
The contrast is immediate: a sheltered interior on one side of a door and blowing white conditions on the other. This Antarctic station cli...
Lake Tahoe: Clear Water, Mountain Shores and a Deeper Story
Rounded boulders seem suspended in the shallows, while the mountain shoreline gives Lake Tahoe a much larger frame. These photographs rewar...
The 2013 Arctic Melt Pond Photograph: What the Camera Actually Showed
The widely shared 2013 “North Pole lake” image shows a summer melt pond on sea ice. Water at the surface made a striking picture, but the N...
Blood Falls, Antarctica: Iron-Rich Brine at Taylor Glacier
Blood Falls stains the edge of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica with an extraordinary rusty red. The colour belongs to a salty, iron-bearing ou...
Polar Bears and Sea Ice: The Context Behind a Swimming Film
A swimming polar bear is a powerful image. To understand the habitat question behind it, though, we need to look beyond whether the animal ...
Antarctic Research Stations: Architecture for Work and Daily Life
Antarctic stations combine laboratories, living spaces and the practical demands of a remote environment. Their appearance makes more sense...
Svalbard Glacier Comparisons: What the Historic and 2002 Photographs Reveal
At first, the mountains make these photographs look familiar. Then your eye reaches the waterline, and the difference becomes clear: places...
Titan’s Northern Lakes Through Cassini’s Instruments
Cassini’s views of Titan reveal dark northern lakes and seas on a world very different from Earth. Their familiar shapes invite comparison ...
Earth’s Coldest Temperatures: Vostok, Satellite Measurements and Antarctic Hollows
Two very different measurements appear in stories about Earth’s coldest place: air temperature at a station and the temperature of the snow...
Ten Ways to Understand Snow: Crystals, Records and Winter Landscapes
Snow becomes more interesting when you connect its appearance with how it formed and changed. The brief science primer below introduces ten...