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Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.

Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.

Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.

A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.

Antarctic Iceberg A-23A’s journey ends in fragmentation in the South Atlantic Ocean, after a 40-year lifespan documented by satellites.

A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even…

During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the…


