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Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson hold an ice core.

WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher, Featuring Lonnie Thompson & Ellen Mosley-Thompson

Lonnie and Ellen appeared on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher on Tuesday, Oct. 27, to discuss the importance of the ice archives at the OSU Byrd Center and supporting the Buckeye Ice Campaign…

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Shrinking glaciers have created a new normal for Greenland's ice sheet – consistent ice loss for the foreseeable future

As Greenland’s glaciers retreat, they are losing ice at a faster and faster rate. Michalea King, CC BY-ND

Michalea King, The Ohio State University

Greenland is the largest…

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Indigenous Peoples' Day

By Chris Booker,

Originally published in Ohio State News.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day honored at Ohio State The day promotes the visibility of Native peoples

 

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Thermal graph of the North-Eastern United States

Mother Nature's Quarantine: How the Earth benefited from people staying home

Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson talks with Mackenzie Bart of WBNS News about how ice cores preserve records of human activity, atmospheric changes, and viruses and bacteria.

Orange and pink sunset over lake. The lake is surrounded by trees and grass.

Western wildfires cause hazy skies, intense Ohio sunsets

Dr. Aaron Wilson discusses the far-reaching impact of the Western U.S. wildfires with The Columbus Dispatch in the article, Western wildfires cause hazy skies, intense Ohio sunsets.…

Ice core drilling at night. the landscape is dark except for a lit up shelter

How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics

Records of human history, preserved for thousands of years

Originally published in The Conversation.

By Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, The…

Icebergs near Greenland form from ice that has broken off--or calved--from glaciers on the island.

Glacier Retreat Drives Continuing Greenland Ice Loss

Even if the climate warming stops, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink

Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if…

Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State on 2019 Huascaran expedition (Photo credit: Todd Johnston, Article: Kristen Pope, Yale Climate Connections)

Scientists seek to collect ice core samples before glaciers and ice sheets melt

Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Dr. Richard Alley discuss the urgency and challenges associated with saving perfectly preserved atmospheric records contained within ice cores with Kristen Pope…

Jim DeGrand installs sensors around the OSU campus.

It's hot in the city: understanding the urban heat island effect on Ohio State's campus

Forty years ago, Ohio State geography Professor John Arnfield would get into his Volkswagen Microbus and set out to study the microclimates in Columbus. His wife, Joan, marked intersections in the…