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
Starting in 2012, a large glacier in northeast Greenland broke loose and entered a phase of accelerated retreat.
Published Dec 4, 2015
Crisscrossing glaciers in northwest Greenland flow along the path of least resistance.
Published Jan 22, 2015
In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
Published Oct 1, 2020
On Greenland, tens of thousands of years of snowfall have settled and solidified into a massive sheet of ice. Each summer, snow retreats briefly at low elevations, and a narrow strip of rocky coastline emerges. While some seasonal thawing is typical on Greenland, more dramatic changes are probably in store for the Greenland Ice Sheet in coming decades and centuries.
Published Aug 30, 2007
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
Jakobshavn Glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.
Published Jun 18, 2019
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
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
Fjords wind between icy, rocky islands and peninsulas, and connect inland areas to an ice-choked ocean.
Published Aug 3, 2018
A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.
Published Feb 20, 2015
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
Thinner than the 2.3-kilometer-thick center, the outer edges of the Greenland ice sheet develop melt zones like the one shown here during the warm summer months.
Published Apr 7, 2007
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
