Shrinking since the early 1900s, the glaciers of Montana’s Glacier National Park are expected to continue declining over the next few decades until only insignificant lumps of ice remain.
Published Jun 15, 2016
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
In this changing Alaskan landscape, tidewater glaciers are holding on to the bay’s West Arm.
Published Sep 16, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Water Snow and Ice Remote Sensing
Glacier National Park in Montana sits at the northern border of the United States.
Published Mar 26, 2006
Views from above show the extent of change across Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.
Published Aug 13, 2020
Currently 30.2 km long and between 0.5 and 2.5 km wide, Gangotri glacier is one of the largest in the Himalaya. Gangotri has been receding since 1780, although studies show its retreat quickened after 1971.
Published Jun 23, 2004
While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.
Published Jun 30, 2020
Where Glacier Bay National Park reaches the Gulf of Alaska, the climate is mild and prone to significant rainfall. Glacier Bay itself, however, tends to be snowy and cold.
Published Sep 11, 2016
For half a century, it has been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change—until now.
Published Nov 5, 2019
The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.
Published Mar 17, 2015
The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
Published Jul 3, 2015
Skeiðarárjökull is known for flooding caused by volcanic eruptions underneath the ice.
Published Jan 11, 2020
This true-color image of Glacier National Park in Canada, acquired in September 2001, shows a landscape of lush vegetation alternating with snow-capped peaks.
Published Jun 28, 2009
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
The diverse landscape in this Washington park includes mountain peaks, glaciers, rivers, lakes, and forests.
Published Jun 24, 2017
The moraines of Malaspina glacier display a dizzying pattern of curves, zigzags, and loops.
Published Oct 11, 2015
Without enough fresh snow to replenish it, Alaska’s Yakutat Glacier is in trouble.
Published Nov 26, 2018
This pair of images shows the retreat of the Sermersuaq (Humboldt) Glacier in northwestern Greenland between 2000 and 2008. Sermersuaq Glacier is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.
Published Dec 16, 2008
New Zealand’s longest glacier has shrunk in recent decades. Meanwhile, the lake at its terminus has grown.
Published Mar 26, 2017
Humboldt Glacier in the remote tropical Andes is going, going, and nearly gone.
Published Aug 27, 2018Image of the Day Land Human Presence Snow and Ice Remote Sensing
At an altitude of roughly 5,400 meters (17,700 feet), the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir is a forbidding place.
Published Apr 23, 2006
