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Retreat of the Columbia Glacier
Published October 31, 2014
The recent retreat of the glacier’s West Branch took scientists by surprise.
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The Randolph Glacier Inventory
Published June 26, 2014
The first global catalog of glaciers is helping scientists get a better handle on how much sea levels could rise in coming years.
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Retreat of Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland
Published June 11, 2014
At the end of May, many square kilometers of ice crumbled from Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier, continuing a century-long retreat.
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Randolph Glacier Inventory
Published June 6, 2014
Glaciers are found at high altitudes or high latitudes.
Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1A
Published April 22, 2014
Icebergs surround the edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in one of the first images to come from the European Space Agency’s new Sentinel-1A satellite.
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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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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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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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