The communities of eukaryotes varied from pond to pond, revealing a surprising diversity of life across the setting. The team also found that salinity plays a key role in the kind of life a pond ...

Water is released from the base of Friant Dam at a rate of more than 8,000 cubic feet per second on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 to make room in Millerton Lake for the expected spring and summer melt ...

Does snow typically melt from above or below? "It depends on the time of year," Boulay said. "But deep snowpack, it melts from the top." Strong sun can evaporate snow into the air.

This new technique to detect melt pond coverage uses NASA’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument on the Landsat 7 satellite, developed with the aid of much higher resolution video ...

Small pond, big life For their new study, the researchers analyzed samples taken from meltwater ponds in Antarctica. In 2018, Summons and colleagues from New Zealand traveled to a region of the ...

A cyanobacterial mat fragment sampled from the edge of a meltwater pond during a 2018 Antarctic expedition. (Roger Summons / MIT Summons Lab) A sample of amber-colored microbial mat collected from a ...

One in five glaciers on Earth are covered with a layer of rocky debris. The presence of debris influences how glaciers melt. In the Himalaya, debris covers most large glaciers, and it is so thick ...

Ancient soil shows part of Greenland was ice-free — and could soon melt again, scientists say July 20, 2023 More than 2 years ago 8 min Summary ...