SciShow
GRACE Mission Data Informs Climate Science: Getting Beyond the Spin About Sea-Level Rise
Hank sets the record straight on some of the findings of NASA's GRACE mission and how they relate to predictions about sea level rise and climate change.
Next Animation Studio
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.
SciShow
The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century
Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base...
Curated Video
Animation and Persistence of Vision
Animation is a common effect used in cartoons and videos that allows us to perceive movement in still images. Let's look at some common animation techniques to see how they trick our minds. Illusions part 6/11
NASA
NASA Measuring Sea Ice at the Peak of Melt
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since satellite observations began. Using satellite data and airborne observations, NASA researchers are monitoring the...
NASA
Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Five years after a NASA-funded field study returned to to set up camp once again in the melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study adds to the rich findings from this innovative project. We look back on this bold undertaking,...
NASA
NASA | Arctic Melt Season Lengthening, Ocean Rapidly Warming
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to the melt season is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation in some places to melt as much as...
NASA
Arctic Sea Ice Is the Thinnest and Youngest It's Been in 60 Years
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have constructed a 60-year record of Arctic sea ice thickness. Right now, Arctic sea ice is the youngest and thinnest its been since...
NASA
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow...
NASA
NASA | Greenland's Ice Layers Mapped in 3D
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer provides a record of not only snowfall and melting events, but what the Earth’s climate was like at the dawn of...
World Science Festival
See Arctic Sea Ice Melt Before Your Eyes
Another fall has arrived, and with it, another unusually low Arctic sea ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, on September 17 the sea ice coverage dropped to the lowest this year, 1.94 million square miles. It...
NASA
NASA | Operation IceBridge Flies the Ice Caps
Ice caps are simply small versions of ice sheets, measuring in at a maximum area of 50,000 square kilometers (about 19,000 square miles). It's their small and thin stature that makes ice caps more prone to melt in a warming Arctic....
NASA
NASA | PIG Ice Shelf: First Contact
This past January NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler led an expedition to a previously untouched part of Antarctica that may be one of the best places to gauge how global warming is affecting the continent. Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf...
NASA
NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist: Thinning Ice Sheets
How can Greenland's ice sheets still be more than 10,000 feet thick, if carbon dioxide is warming the planet?
Vlogbrothers
This is the scariest graph I've ever seen
Graphs shouldn't be scary! They're just data! And even though I have a masters degree in environmental studies, this graph, once it was explained to me, changed how I felt about the impacts we were having on the planet completely. Of...
NASA
NASA | Arctic Cyclone Breaks Up Sea Ice
Watch how the winds of a large Arctic cyclone broke up the thinning sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean in early August 2012. The storm likely contributed to the ice cap's shrinking to the smallest recorded extent in the past three...
NASA
A New Forecast Model Gives Scientists a Longer View of Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes northward, usually reaching its annual minimum sometime in September. The ice extent is shaped by a variety of factors,...
Kids Learning Videos
Bigger or Smaller? Ocean Animal Guessing Game for Kids
Learn the different sizes of ocean animals with this fun game! Do you know which animal is bigger, and which one is smaller? Preschoolers and toddlers can test whether they know which animal is bigger and which is smaller while looking...
NASA
New NASA Satellite Reveals Profiles of Ice, Forests and Oceans
Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is already exceeding scientists' expectations. The satellite is measuring the height of sea ice to within an inch, tracing the...
National Geographic
Scientists Rush to Save This Melting Piece of Earth's History | National Geographic
A team of scientists is rushing to preserve a vital record of the planet that is literally melting away. Around the world, the team is extracting ice cores from glaciers that are disappearing. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe...
NASA
88-South Antarctic Traverse: Year Two
For the second straight year, NASA researchers (Kelly Brunt and Adam Greeley) endured low temperatures, biting winds, and high altitude to conduct another 88-South Traverse. The 470-mile expedition in one of the most barren landscapes on...
Crash Course
Medieval China: Crash Course History of Science
Like Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, ancient China represents a hydraulic civilization—one that maintained its population by diverting rivers to aid in irrigation—and one that developed writing thousands of years ago. Today, we’re going...
NASA
NASA | A Laser Scientist Answers 5 Questions About LVIS
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...
NASA
NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our...