glaciers
Edinburgh University researchers use drones to map retreating Andes glaciers
Image copyright Rosie Bisset Image caption Rosie Bisset used specially-adapted drones to study the glaciers in the Andes An Edinburgh university researcher has used drones to capture a bird’s-eye view of some of the highest glaciers in South America. Rosie Bisset is part of a project to map the Andes glaciers which are retreating in …
Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change | World news
Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate. As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the barren …
Antarctic glaciers to honour ‘satellite heroes’
A series of glaciers in the Antarctic are being named after the satellites that have revealed the changing state of the White Continent. The spacecraft, from Europe, the US and Japan, have all contributed important observational data which confirms a picture of accelerating ice loss. They include the pioneering American Landsat series of satellites and …
