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The Columbia Glacier in Alaska is one of many vanishing around the world. Glacier retreat is one of the most direct...
In October 2016, the Khurdopin Glacier in Pakistan began a rapid surge after 20 years of little movement. By March,...
New Zealand contains over 3,000 glaciers, most of which are in the Southern Alps on the South Island. Since 1890,...
NASA image acquired September 6, 2010 The Matusevich Glacier flows toward the coast of East Antarctica, pushing...
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier calved a massive iceberg, known as Iceberg B-46, into the Amundsen Sea. Pine Island...
This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's...
A NASA radar instrument has been successfully used to measure some of the fastest moving and most inaccessible...
Alpine Glaciers
Calving front of the Perito Moreno Glacier (Argentina). Contrary to the majority of the glaciers from the southern...
Calving front of the Perito Moreno Glacier (Argentina). Contrary to the majority of the glaciers from the southern...
The ice of a piedmont glacier spills from a steep valley onto a relatively flat plain, where it spreads out...
Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier of Europe, covers more than 120 square kilometers (more than 45 square miles)...
NASA image acquired August 27, 2009 Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to...
The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland is the largest valley glacier in the Alps. Its volume loss since the middle of...
This ice cave in Belcher Glacier (Devon Island, Canada) was formed by melt water flowing within the glacier ice. To...
Calving front of the Upsala Glacier (Argentina). This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate...
Small valley glacier exiting the Devon Island Ice Cap in Canada. To learn about the contributions of glaciers to sea...
Aerial view of the Sverdrup Glacier, a river of ice that flows from the interior of the Devon Island Ice Cap...
Peripheral glaciers and ice caps (isolated from the main ice sheet, which is seen in the upper right section of the...
Melt water ponded at surface in the accumulation zone of Columbia Glacier, Alaska, in July 2008. To learn about the...
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland's Helheim Glacier with a...
An airplane drops essential support on the Austfonna Ice Cap in Svalbard (Norwegian Arctic). The triangular...
Summit camp on top of the Austfonna Ice Cap in Svalbard (Norwegian Arctic). To learn about the contributions of...
Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers...