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The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
Puffs of low-level clouds mingle with the volcanic terrain of Candlemas and Vindication islands in the remote South Atlantic.
From Alaska’s Saint Elias Mountains to Pakistan’s Karakoram, glaciers speed up and slow down with the seasons.
A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall…
A landmass that was once encased in the ice of the Alsek Glacier is now surrounded by water.
The outlet of Berg Lake, dammed by the Steller Glacier in Alaska, has been reconfigured after decades of ice retreat.
Iceberg A-23A continued to lose sizable pieces of ice during the 2025 austral winter, but it remained the planet’s largest…
Glacial retreat in central Iceland has uncovered an undulating topography riddled with colorful bodies of water.
In early July 2025, around halfway through the island’s annual melting season, blue meltwater ponds dotted the western side of…
