Tyndall Glacier is located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. This glacier, which has a total area of 331 square kilometers and a length of 32 kilometers (based on 1996 measurements), begins in the Patagonian Andes Mountains to the west and terminates in Lago Geikie.
Published Dec 24, 2007
Although they move slowly, glaciers do move, and this movement alters the ice as it passes over land. Likewise, a moving glacier can carry with it evidence of geologic events it has witnessed. The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska bears multiple clues about its past.
Published Nov 8, 2006
NIWA scientists stated that this glacier had retreated by 5 kilometers (about 3 miles) over the previous three decades. They also stated that New Zealand glaciers on the whole had lost 5.8 cubic kilometers (roughly 1.4 cubic miles) over the same time period.
Published Jan 27, 2008
Skeiðarárjökull is known for flooding caused by volcanic eruptions underneath the ice.
Published Jan 11, 2020
The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
Published Jul 3, 2015
Over the past two decades, an Alaskan glacier has melted into a lake more than five times the size of Central Park.
Published May 23, 2019
At an altitude of roughly 5,400 meters (17,700 feet), the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir is a forbidding place.
Published Apr 23, 2006
Jakobshavn Glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.
Published Jun 18, 2019
Without enough fresh snow to replenish it, Alaska’s Yakutat Glacier is in trouble.
Published Nov 26, 2018
Retreating glaciers have changed how visitors experience Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska.
Published Aug 31, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Water Snow and Ice Remote Sensing
