ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- Lisa and I had just flown into the tiny Ilulissat airport and were told we were catching a helicopter ride that afternoon to… {Read More »}

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- We were there for their first day of scouting near Kangerlussuaq, and had the chance to tag along with scientists Tom Neumann and Paul Bierman again on their last day of science in Greenland, recording this video dispatch... {Read More »}

KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- On his team's first day out in the field near Kangerlussuaq, Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont explains what kind of rocks they look for to help determine the last time Greenland was free of ice... {Read More »}

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- When scientists try to discover why a large glacier in Greenland suddenly speeds up, they look for all kinds of clues, including the sudden flood of water to the base of the glacier when a giant melt lake cracks the ice open. In this video, we ask scientist Ian Joughin about the significance of these floods... {Read More »}

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND-- The Exploratorium crew has moved to Ilulissat, a beautiful town 250 kilometers above the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland. This is a gathering place for glaciologists because it’s close to the one of the world’s fastest-moving and most productive glaciers, the Jakobshavn glacier... {Read More »}

KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- As discussed in my last dispatch, Lisa and I got up to the Greenland Ice Sheet, tagging along with a group of glaciologists on a rock-hunting expedition. In this video dispatch, I give a quick update from atop the second largest ice sheet in the world... {Read More »}

KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- Every scientist going into the field has a plan, but things rarely go exactly as planned. Today was a perfect example. We drove… {Read More »}

EN ROUTE TO KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- (Onboard an LC-130 from Stratton National Air Guard Base) For scientists doing research in Greenland, and those of us lucky… {Read More »}

Understanding how large ice sheets in the Antarctic and Arctic behave in a warming world is an important but relatively unknown factor that may dramatically affect sea level and other consequences of climate change. {Read More »}

In our live webcast at the Exploratorium last weekend (to watch click here) we aired some as-of-yet-unseen video dispatches I made at Siple Dome, Antarctica.… {Read More »}