Decades of retreat are visible from above, but harder-to-see changes below the waterline could also affect this iconic glacier’s future.
Published May 19, 2023
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
Over the past two decades, an Alaskan glacier has melted into a lake more than five times the size of Central Park.
Published May 23, 2019
For half a century, it has been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change—until now.
Published Nov 5, 2019
Watch the glacier crumble away as it retreats about 15 miles from its initial position in the 1980s.
Published Feb 10, 2022
The recent retreat of the glacier’s West Branch took scientists by surprise.
Published Oct 31, 2014
Retreat of Patagonia’s Tyndall Glacier continues to uncover a prehistoric graveyard of marine reptiles.
Published Jun 3, 2022
The estuarine inlets of Spain’s Galicia coast are some of the most productive places to grow mussels.
Published Sep 19, 2023
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