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Oblique view of Himalayan landscape captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON satellite on December 20, 1975, on the border between eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India.
glaciers

How Old Spy Satellites Helped Scientists Peek In on Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers

Declassified reconnaissance images to the rescue.
Jessica Leigh Hester June 19, 2019
Milluni, Bolivia

Abandoned Chacaltaya Ski Resort

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.
Newfoundland and Labrador

Iceberg Alley

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.
Video • PinDrop

This Once-Thriving Hotel Couldn't Compete With Climate Change

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Doane Rock, 2014. Child for scale.
Eastham, Massachusetts

Doane Rock

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.
The Perito Moreno glacier at Los Glaciares National Park. The park is predicted to lose about 60 percent of its current ice volume by 2100.
unesco

Glaciers at World Heritage Sites Are Melting Before the World’s Eyes

A new inventory shows just how at risk these icy giants are.
Jonathan Carey May 1, 2019
The limestone landscape.
Borgholm N, Sweden

Neptuni Åkrar

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.
Bluie East Two.
Ikateq, Greenland

Bluie East Two

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.
A smattering of glacial kettles.
geology

See Iceland's Stunning Glacial Kettles From Above

An abstract view of a changing world.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 7, 2019
A giant sloth tooth.
sloths

Found: A Giant Sloth Tooth in a 200-Foot-Deep Sinkhole

The bone helps to explain how the creature stuck around for more than 10,000 years.
Matthew Taub February 27, 2019
A close-up view of the rift separating Pine Island Glacier and iceberg B-46, as seen on an Operation IceBridge flight on November 7, 2018.
glaciers

This Glacier Is Losing Ice Faster Than Any Other in Antarctica

Pine Island Glacier calved icebergs in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018—and now, another one is getting ready to break free.
Shaena Montanari February 11, 2019
That's one groovy drumlin.
deserts

These Namibian Hills Are Holdovers From an Ice Age

They reveal that ice was once speeding through southern Africa.
Matthew Taub February 6, 2019
An iceberg floating off the Rydberg Peninsula, observed during Operation IceBridge's 2017 Antarctic campaign.
science

Antarctica Is Losing 250 Billion Tons of Ice Per Year

For nearly 40 years, this loss has accelerated at a devastating clip.
Matthew Taub January 14, 2019
Ecologist Morton J. Elrod used this boulder to measure the terminus of Grinnell Glacier in 1926. Now, no ice is visible from the rock.
nature

Climate Change Is Coming for America's National Parks

Goodbye, glaciers.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 25, 2018
Gastro Obscura

Iceberg Beer

A Newfoundland brewery makes beer from glaciers that float along the shore.
Precariously perched.
Lancaster, England

Norber Erratics

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.
The calving front of the Helheim glacier.
glaciers

See a Giant Iceberg Fall Into the Sea

Scientists filmed the break-up of a Greenland glacier.
Sarah Laskow July 9, 2018
Aerial recording of Summit Camp, Greenland.
Greenland

Summit Camp

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.