Tag: Ice & Glaciers
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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
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Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape
A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.
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A Sea of Spinning Clouds
Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.
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Record-Setting Retreat of Hektoria Glacier
Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.
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Megaberg Ends Its Long Odyssey at Sea
Antarctic Iceberg A-23A’s journey ends in fragmentation in the South Atlantic Ocean, after a 40-year lifespan documented by satellites.
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Seeing Blue During Schirmacher’s Summer Melt Season
A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.
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Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters
During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.
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A Most Unusual Lake
Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, has unusual water chemistry and cone-shaped microbial structures resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
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Ailing “Megaberg” Sparks Surge of Microscopic Life
As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Landslide and Avalanche Debris Litter Hubbard Glacier
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.