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
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
Thick ice that used to last through multiple summers has been in steep decline for three decades.
Published Mar 1, 2012
Climate and volcanoes transform an ice cap in Iceland.
Published Nov 13, 2014
Two ice caps north of St. Patrick Bay on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, retreated to just a fraction of their original size.
Published Mar 24, 2016
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
This approximately true-color image shows ice fragments left over from previous breakups of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Published Apr 19, 2009
A diamond-shaped piece of ice is a stranger amid thin ice.
Published Mar 1, 2017
Acquired October 7, 2011, this natural-color image shows an ice menagerie off the coast of East Antarctica.
Published Oct 23, 2011
This pair of maps shows how the sea ice covering the Arctic at winter maximum in 2009 is younger than it was in the past.
Published Apr 10, 2009
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