Acquired in 2001 and 2010, these natural-color images show substantial retreat in the Jakobshavn Glacier.
Published Jul 15, 2010
The heavily crevassed terminus of Kong Oscar Glacier in northwestern Greenland crumbles into a mélange of icebergs in the Davis Strait.
Published Aug 25, 2010
Acquired September 6, 2010, this natural-color image shows chunks of ice breaking off Matusevich Glacier along the coast of Antarctica.
Published Nov 7, 2010
At the end of May, many square kilometers of ice crumbled from Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier, continuing a century-long retreat.
Published Jun 11, 2014
The first global catalog of glaciers is helping scientists get a better handle on how much sea levels could rise in coming years.
Published Jun 26, 2014
Acquired July 22, 2010, this high-resolution image shows cracks on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.
Published Aug 11, 2010
The icefields of Patagonia, located at the southern end of South America, are the largest masses of ice in the temperate Southern Hemisphere (approximately 55,000 square kilometers).
Published May 8, 2006
Where once two streams of ice merged in Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, today there is division and a complex surface riddled with crevasses and melt ponds.
Published Dec 3, 2011
The Amundsen Sea segment of the ice sheet has begun a melting process that will result in its loss, possibly within the next few hundred years.
Published May 16, 2014
A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.
Published Feb 20, 2015
Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier sheds more ice, and continues to retreat at galloping speeds.
Published Aug 20, 2015
An outlet glacier in the Russian High Arctic has scientists rethinking how rapidly glaciers in cold, dry areas can move.
Published Apr 8, 2019
Melting and thinning of high-mountain glaciers makes them flow less due to gravity.
Published Dec 14, 2018
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
Published Sep 11, 2019
A peek under the ice reveals a Grand Canyon-sized channel under the Jakobshavn glacier—one reason why the Greenland glacier contributes more to sea level rise than any other single feature in the Northern Hemisphere.
Published Nov 10, 2011
Glaciers in a region of Alaska are losing about 75 billion tons of ice per year, but not all glaciers contribute equally.
Published Jul 7, 2015
The amount of ice flowing from the Antarctic glacier has doubled in the span of three decades, and scientists think it could undergo even more dramatic changes in the near future.
Published Feb 6, 2020
Three polynyas—circular areas free of sea ice—provide tantalizing clues as to why Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is melting at an astonishing 100 meters per year.
Published Nov 18, 2011
Starting out as land ice, these icebergs are now trapped in sea ice off the east coast of Greenland.
Published May 13, 2018
Acquired August 5, 2010 , and July 28, 2010, these natural-color images show the Petermann Glacier before and after the calving of a massive iceberg.
Published Aug 10, 2010
