Retreat

Substantial ice loss has been observed in the Antarctic region since the 1970s, but a new study suggests for at least some significant regions it actually started as far back as the 1940s, and perhaps even earlier.A research team led by the University of Houston collected sedimentary rock cores from seven locations near the massive Thwaites Glacier and nearby Pine Island Glacier to determine precisely when current melting began to ramp up.Dating back over 10,000 years, the rock samples tell the story of the ice shelves…

Thwaites Glacier, western Antarctica, 2019. Credit: Robert Larter Among the vast expanse of Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier, the world's widest glacier measuring about 80 miles on the western edge of the continent. Despite its size, the massive landform is losing about 50 billion tons of ice more than it is receiving in snowfall, which places it in a precarious position in respect to its stability.…

An image showing ice flowing into the ocean and forming an ice shelf in Antarctica. (NB: This image is not of Pine Island Glacier itself, but it is representative of how Pine Island Glacier is behaving). Credit: Professor Hilmar GudmundssonThe Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has experienced an irreversible retreat, crossing a tipping point in the past 80 years, according to a recent study.The findings, which were published in the influential journal Nature Climate Change, emerged when world leaders gathered in…

Things like team building, work retreats, business trips and training programs are amazing opportunities for employees to get together and become better as an organization. And think about all of the personal and professional growth!Well, that is, if it’s done properly.One Redditor shared how a work retreat can be handled horribly when you introduce a toxic boss, an idea for a retreat that’s not only unpaid but also mandatory, and then, as an added bit of spice, force employees to share beds (not even just rooms).You…

The Cadman Glacier before and after the collapse of the ice shelf. The image on the left was taken in 2017 and shows the ice shelf. An image taken this month, on the right, shows the loss of the ice shelf. Credit: European Commission, European Space Agency, Copernicus Sentinel-2 Data, Benjamin Wallis Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can "switch very rapidly" and lose large quantities of…

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok is making a hasty retreat out of the global gaming industry in a bid to cuts its losses. Seen as one of the biggest tech investment failures in recent history, ByteDance is set to fire hundreds of employees from its gaming brand Nuverse…

A collaborative study has found that Greenland’s peripheral glaciers are retreating at an unprecedented rate, with the retreat in the 21st century being twice as fast as in the 20th century. This rapid change, linked to climate change, was revealed through a combination of satellite and historical aerial imagery.The new findings are ubiquitous, even among Earth’s northernmost glaciers.New study documents how Greenland’s peripheral glaciers have changed from 1890 to 2022Using satellite images and a unique archive of…

On Oct. 19, Asian-American SoCal resident Nancy Ng, 29, went kayaking on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. The excursion was part of a yoga retreat Ng was on, and included at least nine other participants, who rented kayaks from a local business and set out. It was the last time anyone saw Ng. Now, four weeks since her disappearance, and amid desperate pleas from her family for help, TikTok’s true crime community are amplifying the story to aid in the search for Ng.  “My dad, he, and this sounds terrible, he keeps his…

One of the 200,000 photos collected by Danish pilots (from open-cockpit airplanes) of Greenland's coastline. Credit: Danish National Archives Greenland's thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern University and University of Copenhagen study has found. To piece…

Greenland’s Petermann Glacier is rapidly retreating with increased thinning and accelerated flow. Warming ocean waters are enhancing melt rates, especially at the glacier’s grounding zone, and iceberg calving events have reduced the ice tongue significantly. These changes are raising concerns over potential contributions to global sea level rise.Decades of retreat are visible from above, but harder-to-see changes below the waterline could also affect this iconic glacier’s future.Petermann Glacier is one of Greenland’s…