“Depending on where you source the water on the glacier, it can be quite turbid with a large percentage of suspended material ...
In a little over two weeks, more than 3,000 billion liters of water recently flooded out of an ice-dammed lake in East ...
The peat landscape then acts as the glacier, absorbing that water and releasing it slowly into the rivers in the Okavango Basin. The Cuito River is seemingly cut off from this source lake ...
Lake Enigma sits between two glaciers, Amorphous and Boulder Clay, in Antarctica’s Northern Foothills. Given the area’s average temperature of 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit (-14 degrees Celsius) and lows of ...
pressuring already faltering water sources. Meanwhile, El Alto, the city sister to the capital La Paz, is growing at approximately 5% per year, according to glacier scientist Ramirez. While the ...
Their rapid melting poses a threat to these essential resources, affecting not only local communities but also ecosystems ...
ocean currents and freshwater runoff streaming from the base of the glacier. Called a plume, this jet of water is more buoyant than the salty ocean water in the fjord. The plume brings plankton ...
Nagchu city, in the northern part of the Xizang autonomous region, is the origin of many major rivers in Asia, including the ...
A video of an iceberg flipping over in a glacier lagoon has captivated millions on TikTok. On December 1, user @giannaprim posted the clip, which has since received more than 16.4 million views ...