Mertz Glacier

Augustus Brown Swimming Pool is adjacent to Juneau-Douglas High School on Glacier Avenue in downtown Juneau. (Photo by Casey Kelly/KTOO) ... The board was and remains a strong advocate for downtown swimming, board chairman Max Mertz said. The Aquatics Board made its case in a memo to ...

Scientists explore the most unique corners of our world. They survey the frigid waters underneath the edge of Antarctica, watch polar bears circle as they look for a patch of ice to rest on, and gaze up at the stars from the high altitude Chilean desert. They're able to capture some pretty stunning photos while ...

The fate of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in Antarctica is in the balance — and so is that of all our cities ... Clash of titans ... A satellite image showing the calving of the Mertz Glacier, left, after it was struck by a 97km-long iceberg in Antarctica. Such a chain of collapses could result in rapid sea level rise.

The extra ice was due to the breakup of the Mertz glacier in 2010 as waters warmed. ... French National Center for Scientific Research, told Agence France-Presse that conditions are set for such die-offs to “happen more frequently” because of floating Mertz ice as well as changing winds and temperatures.

Thousands of Adelie penguin chicks died in Antarctica early this year, in an event now prompting conservationists to call for the urgent protection of east Antarctic waters. Scientists studying a colony of more than 18,000 pairs of Adelie penguins in the French Antarctic territory, Adelie Land, discovered only ...

Bacteria collected on the sedimental floor beneath Mertz glacier, on the Antarctic continent, as part of Christel Hassler's project (University of Geneva). Credit: M.Fourquez. Six months after the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition ended, the teams that ran the 22 scientific projects are hard at work sorting ...

On reaching the sea, these glaciers fracture and release icebergs or form large regions of floating ice known as ice shelves. ... article in the journal Nature Communications by a French team working in Antarctica has looked at the history of the polynya in the lee of the Mertz Glacier going back 250 years.

If it initiated the Larsen C breakup - then that breakup would almost certainly lead to the acceleration of ice flow of the glaciers behind the ice shelf into the ocean. ... There, the removal of the Mertz Glacier Tongue changed radically the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water - 30 per cent was produced there - with important ...

Unleashed by fracturing glaciers, they interfere with the Antarctic Ocean's sea-ice factories, called polynyas, according to the study. The open-water polynyas ... The scientists studied the recent history of one of the Antarctic Bottom Current's most important polynyas, near East Antarctica's Mertz Glacier.