With its mission complete, the Rosetta-Ice Project, led by Columbia University polar geophysicist Robin Bell, will give scientists an unprecedented look at the Ross Ice Shelf and how it’s changing with the climate.
A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic’s sea ice; it is increasing the odds that ice-rafted pollution will foul a neighboring country’s waters, says a new study by Stephanie Pfirman and Robert Newton, researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Scientists from Lamont-Dohery Earth Observatory have discovered that seasonally flowing streams fringe much of Antarctica’s ice. The widespread presence of these melt streams signals that the ice may be more vulnerable to melting than previously thought.