IceTrek project summary

In March 2006, a US-Argentine team landed on two icebergs that had broken off from a massive glacier-fed ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula....

White House guidance on Indigenous Knowledge recognizes ELOKA

By Agnieszka GautierIn traditional approaches to research, it is standard to consider knowledge generated through the research project the “property” of the researchers and...

Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall

Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thoughtMore rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than...

NSIDC hosts first-of-its-kind mapping tool to make Greenland exploration accessible to all

QGreenland, an open-source mapping tool that aids in the discovery and teaching about Greenland, is now available from the National Snow and Ice Data...

Arctic sea ice maximum at record low for third straight year

Arctic sea ice maximum at record low for third straight yearThe National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for...

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