Malaspina Glacier, Alaska

The moraines of Malaspina glacier display a dizzying pattern of curves, zigzags, and loops.

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Johns Hopkins Glacier

While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.

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Beached Bergs in Alaska

Glaciers shed icebergs throughout summer, and the icy bodies collect at the beach.

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A Sign of Surging on Bivachny Glacier

The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.

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Alaska Glaciers and Rivers

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The Advance of Hubbard Glacier

This tidewater glacier in southeast Alaska is not like the others; it’s advancing, and threatens to transform a fjord into a lake.

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Retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier

Since 1980, the volume of a glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half.

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Bear Glacier, Gulf of Alaska

Although they move slowly, glaciers do move, and this movement alters the ice as it passes over land. Likewise, a moving glacier can carry with it evidence of geologic events it has witnessed. The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska bears multiple clues about its past.

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Alaska’s Biggest (Ice) Losers are Inland

Glaciers in a region of Alaska are losing about 75 billion tons of ice per year, but not all glaciers contribute equally.

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Retreat Begins at Taku Glacier

For half a century, it has been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change—until now.

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Obersulzbach Glacier Plus Four

The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.

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Stable Fedchenko

Precipitation increases and a layer of debris on the terminus have helped maintain the longest mid-latitude glacier.

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Inlet’s Iceberg Maker Is Nearly Gone

Retreating glaciers have changed how visitors experience Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska.

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Grand Plateau Glacier

Views from above show the extent of change across Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.

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Malaspina on the Move

More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.

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Susitna Glacier, Alaska

Acquired August 27, 2009, this false-color image shows the complex marbled surface of Alaska’s Susitna Glacier.

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