US EditionMassive Hidden Waves Are Rapidly Melting Greenland’s Glaciers
Researchers use funerals and memorials for glaciers to make the annual loss of 273 billion tons of ice tangible and motivate climate policy action worldwide.
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Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers
Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The resulting surface tsunamis and massive hidden underwater waves intensify melting at the glacier face. This powerful mixing effect accelerates ice loss far more than previously understood. The work highlights how fragile the Greenland ice system has become as temperatures rise.
The Anthropologists Holding Funerals for the World’s Dying Glaciers
Glaciers around the world are melting so quickly that the scale of the loss is difficult to comprehend. Death, on the other hand, is a universal experience, familiar across all cultures. To bridge that gap, anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe of Rice University are drawing parallels between human death rituals and the disappearance of glaciers, offering people a more tangible way to understand what’s being lost. They’ve held funerals f…
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