glacier

Imaggeo on Mondays: The glacier surviving climate change

Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva October 21, 2019

A Living Being Surviving the Climate Change. Credit: Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Human impacts on the climate are nowadays clearly discernible, and the changes to our climate that previously happened in geologic time scales are currently happening during the span of a human lifetime. Our planet is warming and temperature today is now more than 1°C higher than it was in the pre-industrial world and rises by about 0.15-0.2°C on average each decade. The dramatic effects of this r ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A walk at the glacier

Martina Grudzielanek October 14, 2019

A walk at the glacier. Credit: A. Martina Grudzielanek (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2012 I had the opportunity to help lead a teaching excursion to the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard. On this trip, geography students from the Ruhr-University of Bochum in Germany had the chance to learn more about the nature of this fascinating island. In addition to Svalbard’s climatology and the wildlife, the region’s glaciology and geomorphology were the main topics we focused on. For exampl ...[Read More]

July GeoRoundUp: the best of the Earth sciences from around the web

Olivia Trani August 3, 2019

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, is photographed on the Moon by the Solar Wind Composition (SWC) experiment during the Apollo 11 mission. 20 July 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the first human steps on the Moon. Credit: NASA

Drawing inspiration from popular stories on our social media channels, major geoscience headlines, as well as unique and quirky research, this monthly column aims to bring you the latest Earth and planetary science news from around the web. Major story The world soaks up the sun This summer our planet experienced the hottest June in recorded history, with the average global temperature reaching 16 ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Sand and snow on the Tibetan Plateau

Olivia Trani June 3, 2019

Snow & Sand in Harmony. Credit: Monica Cardarilli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

Roughly 50 million years ago, the Eurasian and Indian continental plates began to crash into each other, dramatically changing the landscape of modern-day Asia. The force of the collision caused the Earth to scrunch together at the zone of impact, subsequently forming the Himalayan mountain range. However, to the north of the crash, a stretch of the Earth uplifted without bunching up or wrinkling; ...[Read More]