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Dark Snow Project
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Dark Snow Project

Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet reveals impurity-rich ice that is thousands of years old.

Published Oct 28, 2014

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Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000
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Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000

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

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Mapping Snow on Arctic Sea Ice
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Mapping Snow on Arctic Sea Ice

First-of-a-kind maps show how the depth of this insulating snow layer changes from month to month.

Published May 27, 2020

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Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada
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Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada

Acquired September 4, 2010, this natural-color image shows part of the Barnes Icecap and adjoining Gee Lake on Baffin Island.

Published Oct 10, 2010

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Ice Varieties along the Antarctic Coast
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Ice Varieties along the Antarctic Coast

The land and sea along Antarctica’s Mawson Coast offer a study in ice forms.

Published Dec 31, 2011

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St. Patrick Bay Ice Caps Nearly Gone
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St. Patrick Bay Ice Caps Nearly Gone

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

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Tropical Climate History...Shrinking
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Tropical Climate History...Shrinking

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

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Winter in Southern Greenland
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Winter in Southern Greenland

Captured near the end of 2012, this image shows a mixture of sea ice, land ice, and fresh snow.

Published Jan 6, 2013

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Lakes and Rivers Have Ice, Too
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Lakes and Rivers Have Ice, Too

While most scientific and public attention goes to glaciers, lake and river ice have interesting stories to tell as well.

Published Jul 5, 2017

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Seasonal Effects of Arctic Snow and Ice
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Seasonal Effects of Arctic Snow and Ice

Snow and ice play an important role in keeping our planet cool, though not in the way you might think.

Published May 19, 2011

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Amount of Old Ice in Arctic Hits Record Low in February 2009
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Amount of Old Ice in Arctic Hits Record Low in February 2009

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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