Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier sheds more ice, and continues to retreat at galloping speeds.
Published Aug 20, 2015
Acquired in 2001 and 2010, these natural-color images show substantial retreat in the Jakobshavn Glacier.
Published Jul 15, 2010
Natural processes and human-caused warming have combined to bring rapid change to a glacier in southeastern Alaska.
Published Aug 20, 2014
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
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
In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
Published Oct 1, 2020
A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.
Published Feb 20, 2015
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
Acquired July 22, 2010, this high-resolution image shows cracks on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.
Published Aug 11, 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
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
In August 2016, an iceberg heaved away from the Porcupine Glacier in northern British Columbia. It could be the biggest calving event in North America since satellite observations began.
Published Oct 12, 2016
An outlet glacier in the Russian High Arctic has scientists rethinking how rapidly glaciers in cold, dry areas can move.
Published Apr 8, 2019
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
Published Sep 11, 2019
Acquired June 5, 2011, this natural-color image shows Roze Glacier on the coast of Novaya Zemlya, Russia.
Published Sep 18, 2011
Crisscrossing glaciers in northwest Greenland flow along the path of least resistance.
Published Jan 22, 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
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
