Glacial geologists uncover synchronized timescale of last ice age across both hemispheres with clues to climate now
Glacial geologists uncover synchronized timescale of last ice age across both hemispheres with clues to climate now
By Christiana Freitag
Medill Reports, Nov. 3, 2024
Trekking up windy and swampy fjords of southwestern Norway, University of Maine graduate researcher Katie Westbrook searched for a boulder – but not just any boulder. Westbrook was looking for an
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. How’d it happen so fast?
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. How’d it happen so fast?
By Sara Cooper
Medill News Service, Dec. 18, 2024
In the span of minutes, a cliff of ice has fractured on Antarctica’s western coast, expelling a monolith into the sea. An iceberg was just born, and many more will follow into the South Atlantic
Far from a glacial pace: New research indicates a swift end to the last ice age
Far from a glacial pace: New research indicates a swift end to the last ice age
By Sara Cooper
Medill News Service, Dec. 18, 2024
Nearly 19,000 years ago the Cordillera Darwin mountain range was changing. Fast. The mass of glacial ice that blanketed the region, previously sustained by the cool conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum,
Moraine ages in Norway show global synchrony of atmospheric climate trends
Moraine ages in Norway show global synchrony of atmospheric climate trends
By Frances Mack
Medill News Service, Dec. 16, 2024
As the three field researchers scaled boulders left by the retreats of Norwegian glaciers thousands of years ago, they could hardly see 10 feet in front of them, let alone the rock samples they were
