arctictoday.com
Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, which for the past two decades had been rapidly thinning and retreating, recently began advancing again, and has grown in thickness, a new study from NASA scientists has found. Jakobshavn, which had been the single largest site of ice loss for the Greenland ice sheet, shifted in 2016, according to the study,...
over 7 years ago
arctictoday.com
Over the weekend, sharp-eyed meteorologists with the U.S. National Weather Service in Fairbanks, Alaska noticed something extremely unusual — a series of lightning strikes within 300 miles (about 480 kilometers) of the North Pole. Lightning. Near the North Pole. ⚡️#ThisIsFine @NWSFairbanks pic.twitter.com/lF7fLEMksG — Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) August 11, 2019 The strikes, which were first picked...
about 7 years ago
