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Image of the Week – Blood Falls!

December 9, 2016
Image of the Week – Blood Falls!
Blood Falls, Antarctica. Red coloured water emerges from the front of Taylor Glacier. For scale - the tent at the left of the image is around 4 m long. [Credit: Peter Rejcek , NSF]

If glaciers could speak, you might imagine them saying – “HELP!” The planet continues to warm and this means glaciers continue to shrink. Our new image of the week shows a glacier that appears to be making this point in a rather dramatic and gruesome way – it appears to be bleeding! If you went to the snout of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s Dry Valley region (see map ...[Read More]

Image of the Week — ice tsunamis !

September 23, 2016
Image of the Week — ice tsunamis !
A pile-up ice shove at Brighton Beach, Winsconsin, in March 2009. [Credit: bigcityal via Wikimedia ]

“Tsunami“ is a word that became world famous after the so-called Christmas tsunami in 2004, when enormous waves hit the shores around the Indian Ocean with disastrous consequences for countries such as Sri Lanka, Thailand, Somalia and many others. But did you know that tsunamis can be icy? An ice tsunami is one of the many names associated with ice shoves (or ivu, shore ice override, i ...[Read More]