Using the newly developed method, researchers extracted crevasses from digital elevation models of the ice sheet surface. The maps show how crevasse changed between 2016 and 2021 over glaciers at the ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open at an accelerating pace, with crevasses growing larger and deeper due to the effects of climate change. A new study using high-resolution 3D mapping has reveal ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

The Sheer Beauty of Glaciers Imagine a vast expanse of ice stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is the sight that greets you when you visit nearly any glacier in the world. They are like ...

Scientists warn that the Arctic is warming far more quickly than the rest of the world and that this rapid change ...

To better understand glaciers in Svalbard and beyond, we used an AI model to analyse millions of satellite images from ...

Given the number of satellite images available nowadays, we may not have the human resources to map every region for every ... This meant we could examine the glacier retreats at unprecedented scale ...

More information: Tian Li et al, Pervasive glacier retreats across Svalbard from 1985 to 2023, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55948-1 ...

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