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Seeing Blue During Schirmacher’s Summer Melt Season

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March 30, 2026
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A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.

Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters

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March 16, 2026
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During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.

A Most Unusual Lake

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March 11, 2026
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Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.

Ailing “Megaberg” Sparks Surge of Microscopic Life

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March 6, 2026
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As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Landslide and Avalanche Debris Litter Hubbard Glacier

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February 25, 2026
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Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.

Stonebreen’s Beating Heart

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February 13, 2026
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The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.

Tracking Glacial Change with Landsat and Radar

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February 5, 2026
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NASA Scientist Alex Gardner highlights how Landsat made his research into the dynamics of glacial flow possible.

Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime

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January 14, 2026
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An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.

Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime

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January 14, 2026
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An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low

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September 18, 2025
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With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square […]