storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was built up from data contributions from many glaciological ...

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Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

BLOOMINGTON, USA, Jan 31 2025 (IPS) - The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to promote awareness about the role of glaciers, snow and ice. The climate ...

A glacier is formed when the snow that has existed for a long time has become so thick that it has compressed the snow to become ice, which then moves under its own weight and has its own dynamics, ...

They can be used to determine which outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are most likely to form subglacial channels and consequently whether should slow down over summer, and which ones are ...

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What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Buried within the permafrost, researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ever found in the Arctic. The glacier piece became visible after 2009 landslides in the area. Researchers were ...

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