Algae that tinge snow red are to blame for about a sixth of the snowmelt at an Alaskan ice field Microbes are pushing glacial snow into the red. An alga species that grows on glaciers gives the ...

The algae, which consist of individual cells of a diatom, Melosira arctica, normally cling to the underside of the ice in long, filamentous threads, but break free and sink to the bottom as ice thins ...

which is less reflective than snow and therefore accelerates melt. Ice algae add yet another layer to these interactions that ...

That may harm algae-eating zooplankton and the cod that ... As it happened, two weeks after my walk with Spreen, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado announced that Arctic sea ice ...

While observing watermelon snow in the wild doesn't pose a threat to humans, these algae blooms contribute to ice melt, sea level rise, flooding, and global climate change. According to experts at ...

ICE is a tool for climate scientists studying snow algae, black carbon, and other surface snow phenomena to collect snow and ice samples quickly over a wide area and in dangerous environments such as ...

Snow and ice fell on the high mountains ... In the oceans, a new type of large brown algae, called kelp, latched onto rocks and corals in cool shallow waters, establishing a new habitat favored ...