NASA
NASA | The Helheim Experience
Operation IceBridge has wrapped up its 2015 Arctic field campaign after covering a vast expanse of science targets during 33 different flights over land ice, sea ice, and glaciers. For more on the mission and the science it produces,...
NASA
NASA | Rising Seas Teaser: Science on the Greenland Ice Sheet
A quick preview of the sights and sounds captured this summer as researchers ventured out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
NASA
NASA | IceBridge 2011: Update from Greenland
In this update from the field, the OIB team discusses the challenges they face in their mission.
NASA
NASA | Greenland Ice Flights
Nearly every spring since 1991, researchers including William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., have flown on a NASA aircraft over Greenland, collecting measurements of ice thickness from an altitude of...
NASA
NASA | IceBridge Prepares for Wheels Up
Here's a small dose of how it feels to be part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge team during a typical Kangerlussuaq morning, from that frigid ride to the airfield to wheels up over gorgeous Greenlandic scenery. IceBridge is deep into its...
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NASA | IceBridge Heads for the Coast
Take a break from your day to soak in the sights and sounds of an Operation IceBridge flight over Greenland's southwest coast. This video features both the rugged scenery of Greenland and the somewhat rugged interior of a NASA C-130, the...
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NASA | IceBridge 2011: Eight Down, One to Go
As of April 6, 2011, crew and scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission have completed eight out of nine planned sea ice flights from Thule, Greeenland, and plan to fly one more from Kangerlussuaq. Michael Studinger, IceBridge...
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NASA | Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat
Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded, finally coming to rest at a certain point for the past 5 decades. However, from 1997 to 2006, the glacier has begun to recede again,...
NASA
Big Year for NASA’s IceBridge in 2017
From the South Pole to Greenland, from Alaska’s glaciers to Svalbard, NASA’s Operation IceBridge covered the icy regions of our planet in 2017 with a record seven separate field campaigns. The mission of IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running...
Next Animation Studio
Climate change to push North Atlantic jet stream northward
If this weather-controlling air current moves northward, the U.S. and Europe are in for centuries of nasty weather.
NASA
NASA Scientist Reveals Greenland's Geologic Past
We tend to think of Earth's landmasses as being fixed in place, but in reality they are attached to moving tectonic plates that constantly jostle for position. In some areas these tectonic plates slide over a hotspot - an upwelling of...
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The Geography and Culture of Canada
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Canada.
Mazz Media
The Science of Climate Change
Real World Science : The Science of Climate Change This program begins by explaining how scientists have learned that Earth’s climate has changed many times over billions of years and that Earth’s climate is always changing. Students...
Ancient Lights Media
Norway
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Norway.
Science360
Students Experience Hands-On Science in Greenland
While most of the U.S. was battling record July heat, some U.S. students were seeing world-class research up-close in one of the world's coldest and most scientifically significant places: the tundra and ice sheet in Greenland.
The...
Curated Video
The Continents
This video explores the seven recognized continents on our planet. It will introduce the viewer to the topography of each region as well as the mega cities found across the globe. The continents are explored in order of size from largest...
Next Animation Studio
Melting ice has warped Earth’s crust
The melting of Earth's polar ice is incrementally warping the planet’s crust both vertically and horizontally.
Next Animation Studio
Greenland ice sheet caught in feedback loop, melting fast
A new study claims that the massive Greenland ice sheet is on the brink of a disastrous tipping point.
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Greenland's meltwater increasing rate of sea level rise
According to a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers extracted ice core data in order to examine rates of surface melt and run-off in Greenland.
Science360
Mathematician uses skills to study Greenlands retreating glaciers
Many outlet glaciers in Greenland feed ice from the land into fjords, where discharge of icebergs and melting of the glaciers by warmer ocean waters contribute to rising sea levels. David Holland of NYU studies what happens in the fjord...
Science360
Greenland Ice Cores
At the Stable Isotope Lab in Boulder, Colorado scientists are doing a lot of the same things that those CSI folks do on TV. But instead of being ""crime scene investigators,"" these experts are more like ""cold scene investigators.""...
Bloomberg
China Junk Bonds Suffer Worst Slide of 2023
China's high-yield dollar bonds suffered their sharpest three-day selloff this year, with a fresh default from a state-backed developer underscoring how a liquidity crisis is worsening even for those with funding access. Kevin Kingsbury...
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Small town on the shores of the Arctic ocean among snow-capped mountains of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Small town on the shores of the Arctic ocean among snow-capped mountains of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.