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Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk

Posted in Science on 24th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

The 12.4km sq section is among the largest ever witnessed to come away from the ice stream's calving front.

Speed of glacier retreat worldwide 'historically unprecedented'

Posted in Featured, Science on 6th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have recorded alarming rates of glacial retreat, which are accelerating at a pace double that of a decade ago.

New Horizons: Images reveal ice mountains on Pluto

Posted in Science on 16th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies, images from the New Horizons probe reveal.

Is NASA planning to 'terraform' part of the moon? Not quite

Posted in Science on 9th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Our moon has a lot of frozen water ice, and NASA scientists are trying to figure out how to mine it for use on spacecraft missions.

Fossils explain how life coped during snowball Earth

Posted in Featured, Science on 16th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

The fossils could speak to how life coped in the Cryogenian period, when glaciers held most of Earth in a frozen grip.