NZ's glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice—as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change
New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
How Enormous Glaciers on the Frozen ‘Snowball Earth’ Might Have Bulldozed the Path to Complex Life on Our Planet
A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...
The Indian Express20d
Why is Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) important for UPSC exam
Here’s your knowledge nugget for today. The environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has cleared a proposal to construct a 118-metre high dam in the same place where a devastating ...
digitalcameraworld27d
The best lenses for landscapes: wide-angle zooms for capturing sweeping vistas
I tend to find that the best lenses for landscape photography are wide-angle zooms. Zoom versatility is great for fine-tuning your composition without forcing you to try and get to inaccessible ...
Frontiers3y
Mechanical Properties of Frozen Glacial Tills due to Short Periods of Thawing
Due to the warming climate, glacier retreat has left massive glacial tills in steep gullies; ice in the soil is prone to change phase resulting in the decrease of the ice strength and bonding of soil ...