Lead author Dr Tian Li, Senior Research Associate at the University's Glaciology Centre, said: "The scale of glacier retreats over the past few decades is astonishing, almost covering the entire ...

More information: Harold Lovell et al, Multiple phases of ice-dammed lake formation and drainage associated with a surge of Shisper Glacier, western Karakoram, Journal of Glaciology (2024).

Jessica submitted this blog post and photos from the traverse, with all the scientific details on how we drill and use our firn cores to answer the following question: Is accumulation, or snow fall, ...

The course provides an in-depth overview of glaciers with a focus on the processes related to glacier mass balance, ice motion and glacier instabilities, and the response of glaciers to climate change ...

Spoiler alert: they all didn’t, and that’s due in part to my low porosity hair. I didn’t even know what low porosity hair was until I did some top-button research. In short, it’s when hair ...