The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
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The glacier atop Iceland’s Ok volcano was declared dead in 2014. Satellite images show the latter stages of its decline.
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.
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One of the highest mountain reliefs on Earth can be found in this tiny country sandwiched between eastern India and the Tibetan plateau,
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Scientists use Landsat and commercial satellite data to quantify the losses in this mid-latitude glacier belt.
Several tidewater glaciers in the southern part of Spitsbergen are retreating because of rising air temperatures.
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The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.
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More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
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The first global catalog of glaciers is helping scientists get a better handle on how much sea levels could rise in coming years.
Melting and thinning of high-mountain glaciers makes them flow less due to gravity.
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