[Rockhounds] Forgotten 1937 Aerial Photos Expose Antarctic Anomaly

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

A study using a whaler’s forgotten aerial photos from 1937 shows East
Antarctica’s ice has been stable and even grown, despite some early signs
of weakening.

Extreme weather, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels are all indicators
that the climate and the world’s ice masses are in a critical state.
However, a new study from the Department of Geosciences and Natural
Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen reveals a positive
anomaly.

Using hundreds of old aerial photographs dating back to 1937, combined with
modern computer technology, researchers have tracked the evolution of
glaciers in East Antarctica. This area, which spans approximately 2,000
kilometers of coastline, contains as much ice as the entire Greenland Ice
Sheet. By comparing the historical aerial photos with modern satellite
data, researchers determined the glaciers’ movement and changes in size,
revealing that the ice has not only remained stable but also grown slightly
over the last 85 years, partly due to increased snowfall.

“We constantly hear about climate change and new melt records, so it’s
refreshing to observe an area of glaciers that has remained stable for
almost a century,” says PhD student Mads Dømgaard, the study’s first author.

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