Acquired June 5, 2011, this natural-color image shows Roze Glacier on the coast of Novaya Zemlya, Russia.
Published Sep 18, 2011
Penny Ice Cap is the southernmost of Canada’s big ice caps. Like other glaciers and ice caps in the Northern Hemisphere, the Penny has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades.
Published Sep 18, 2008
Climate and volcanoes transform an ice cap in Iceland.
Published Nov 13, 2014
NASA aircraft return to the Arctic to assess the health of the region’s ice.
Published May 3, 2012
A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.
Published Feb 20, 2015
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
Published Sep 11, 2019
Thick ice that used to last through multiple summers has been in steep decline for three decades.
Published Mar 1, 2012
Acquired July 22, 2010, this high-resolution image shows cracks on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.
Published Aug 11, 2010
In 1984, there were 1.86 million square kilometers of old ice spread across the Arctic at its yearly minimum extent. In September 2016, there were only 110,000 square kilometers of old ice left.
Published Nov 4, 2016
Perched high in the Andes, Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap stores centuries of climate change history in its ice. Its melting edges tell a more immediate climate story.
Published May 8, 2013
The glaciers in the Kerguelen Islands are shrinking as snowfall declines.
Published Apr 27, 2018
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