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Ice stringers, Lake Michigan
Published March 10, 2014
Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
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Southern Patagonia Ice Field
Published March 3, 2014
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
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The Naked Mountain
Published January 17, 2014
Mount Shasta is usually snow-capped. But this winter, it is a lot more brown than white, as drought deepens in California.
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New Snow for the New Year
Published January 5, 2014
The first winter storm of 2014 dropped as much as 24 inches (61 centimeters) of snow in the hardest hit areas.
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Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Published December 8, 2013
Home to Taylor Glacier, striking rock outcrops, and Blood Falls, this dry valley in Antarctica is one of the most remote and geologically exotic places on the planet.
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Upsala Glacier Retreat
Published November 4, 2013
A photograph by an astronaut on the International Space Station shows a progressively shrinking glacier in the North Patagonian Icefield.
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Everest Region, Nepal and China
Published July 9, 2013
Many southern-facing Himalayan glaciers—including Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest—have debris on their lower slopes.
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Worldwide Glaciers
Published July 1, 2013
Map of the global distribution of glaciers.
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Sea Ice Max Continues Downward Trend
Published April 4, 2013
Satellite measurements recorded the 5th lowest Arctic sea ice maximum extent on record. The top ten smallest maxima have all occurred in the past ten years.
North Pole Sea Ice Minimum 2009
Published September 19, 2009
On September 12, 2009, sea ice reached its annual minimum extent, covering 5.10 million square kilometers (2.97 million square miles) of the Arctic Ocean. This image shows the 2009 ice extent compared to the 1979-2000 average.
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Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley
Published September 13, 2009
These true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of glaciers flowing into a largely dry, linear valley in western Greenland on August 29, 2009.
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Lake Missoula
Published August 5, 2009
This false color Landsat 7 image was collected on June 1, 2001 using bands 2, 4 and 3.
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