Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Is…Growing? A recent study from Tongji University used data from two NASA satellites to determine that the Antarctic Ice Sheet has actually gained mass between 2021 and 2023. The data also showed a steep decline in ice sheet mass over the last several decades, with a pronounced acceleration in melting that started around 2010, in line with previous studies. Though the […] Brains Zach Armstrong | December 12, 2025 0 Comments
NASA: Widespread Melting on Humboldt Glacier, Greenland | 2nd Largest Cumulative Melt Area on Record Every year, from around May to early September, melting takes place atop the vast sheet of ice covering Greenland. Toward the end of August 2023, unseasonably warm weather led to several days of widespread melting. The unusual late-season event peaked island-wide on August 22, when melting spanned nearly 730,000 square kilometers (282,000 square miles), or about 45 percent of the […] SnowBrains | September 18, 2023 0 Comments
RIP: Renowned Climate Scientist Falls to Death in Greenland Crevasse Renowned climate scientist and glaciologist, Konrad “Koni” Steffen, slipped and fell to his death in a crevasse in August 2020, while he was doing research in the Swiss Camp area of Western Greenland. During his prolific career, Steffen had credited close to 15,000 academic credits to his name during the decades he spent studying rapidly melting ice sheets in Greenland […] Galen Carrico | August 25, 2020 0 Comments
Doctor/Researcher Killed in Antarctica When Snowmobile Fell Into Crevasse We are sorry to report that Dr. Gordon Hamilton, a climate scientist and professor at University of Maine, Orono, has passed away at age 50. Gordon was conducting research on the Ross Archipelago in a shear zone, an area where two large ice sheets meet. This 125 miles strip is characterized by ice up to 650 feet thick and is heavily crevassed. […] Industry News Sergei Poljak | October 24, 2016 1 Comment
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