Geology is usually so intuitive, it’s rare to find something that goes against your instincts. But isostatic rebound creates a moment of exactly that: the more landlocked glaciers melt, the lower the ...

You’d think with all those glaciers melting around Southeast Alaska, sea levels would be rising. But that’s not the case. Some parts of the region are actually gaining ground at a pretty astounding ...

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Our dynamic planet has an apparent paradox: the more ice melts from landlocked glaciers, the lower the sea level gets in nearby areas. How does this happen? Through the physics of isostatic rebound, ...

Isostatic rebound, also known as post-glacial rebound or glacial isostatic adjustment, is the viscoelastic response of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system to the removal of long-lived surface loads, ...

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Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in part to ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

The Earth’s ice sheets are melting at record speeds. Data released by the World Meteorological Organisation on the day the COP26 climate change summit began showed a record low level of sea ice, as ...

(Reuters) - Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an ...