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At the end of May, many square kilometers of ice crumbled from Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier, continuing a century-long retreat.
Published Jun 11, 2014
Acquired in 2001 and 2010, these natural-color images show substantial retreat in the Jakobshavn Glacier.
Published Jul 15, 2010
In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
Published Oct 1, 2020
Acquired July 22, 2010, this high-resolution image shows cracks on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.
Published Aug 11, 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
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
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
A piedmont-type glacier fans out across a plain in northeast Greenland.
Published Feb 20, 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
