The retreat of Grinnell Glacier, in the heart of Glacier National Park, since 1950 is revealed in this image from August 21, 2003.
Published May 13, 2010
Glacier National Park in Montana sits at the northern border of the United States.
Published Mar 26, 2006
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
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
One of the most famous glaciers in Patagonia periodically cuts off the major southern arm of Lago Argentino.
Published Aug 6, 2012
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
Views from above show the extent of change across Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.
Published Aug 13, 2020
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
The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
Published Jul 3, 2015
Where some of the park’s most notable glaciers end, a series of colorful glacial lakes begin.
Published Jun 11, 2019
The diverse landscape in this Washington park includes mountain peaks, glaciers, rivers, lakes, and forests.
Published Jun 24, 2017
New Zealand’s longest glacier has shrunk in recent decades. Meanwhile, the lake at its terminus has grown.
Published Mar 26, 2017
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake that ravaged Christchurch also broke 30 million tons of ice off the Tasman Glacier.
Published Mar 4, 2011
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
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
Established in 1975, the park saw fur traders nearly two centuries earlier, and it supported human inhabitants thousands of years before that. Today, almost a third of the park is water, and travel through the park is usually by boat.
Published Oct 1, 2006
In the early summer of 2011, the Medvezhiy Glacier in Tajikistan slid abruptly down its valley, creating a glacial lake.
Published Jul 30, 2011
The Southern Patagonian Icefield of Chile and Argentina hosts several spectacular glaciers—including Grey Glacier located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. This glacier, which in 1996 had a measured total area of 270 square kilometers and a length of 28 kilometers (104 square miles in area, 17 miles long), begins in the Patagonian Andes Mountains to the west and terminates in three distinct lobes into Grey Lake (upper image).
Published Jun 25, 2007
Geologically recent events sculpted the rocks of Glacier National Park into sharp mountain peaks and steep-walled valleys.
Published Aug 21, 2008
