With massive glacier-scooped lakes fringing its perimeter and with goats, sheep and grizzly bears in relative abundance, glacier is a photographer's paradise.
A major Antarctic glacier has passed its tipping point, according to a new modelling study.
The largest Alaskan glacier is called Malaspina. It is more than two thousand two hundred square kilometers.
Mark Skidmore, a microbiologist at Montana State University in Bozeman, reported at the conference that his team has found methanogens in the Robertson glacier in the Canadian Rockies.
The glacier withdrew inland to the region where its main two tributaries join, and for the last few years, there have been two fast-flowing glaciers where once there was one.
The glacier dislocated the great stones.
He showed me a drawing of the glacier.
These breath-taking images were taken of an underwater maze inside a glacier by an intrepid explorer.
More than 180 kilometers [112 miles] long, the glacier flows down from the polar plateau (left) to the Ross Ice Shelf (right).
Midui glacier, located in Yupu Township, is the lowest altitude above sea level in the world. It was ranked by China National Geography Magazine as one of the top six most beautiful glaciers in China.
IceBridge scientists were surveying the Pine Island glacier to learn how the glacier is changing and why.
They weren't doing tricks for a zookeeper, advertising glacier mints or pulling a white witch's sleigh.
After my nights at the glacier, I had developed a new respect for these wild and powerful creatures.
Once the parachute opens you fall slow enough to take in the landscape, preferably at sunset or in a beautiful spot like the fiordlands or at the Franz Josef glacier.
However, temperature fluctuations have caused glacier growth and depletion.
The lake, eight miles up from the terminus of the glacier, was held in place by the glacier, but in 2008 it broke through and drained into Resurrection Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park.
By raising sealevels, and therefore the grounding line, in their model, Katz's teamwere able to find the point of no return beyond which the glacier wouldbe unable to recover.
The endless miles pressed flat by the ancient glacier seduce you into speeding.
The grey stripe down the middle of the glacier is called a medial moraine. It is formed when two glaciers flow into each other and join on their way downhill.
This glacial lake is bound by the glacier snout on one end, and a moraine-a mound formed by the accumulation of sediments and rocks moved by the glacier-on the other.
The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.
The glacier calved a large iceberg.
The glacier lily's blooming period lasts about four weeks, typically from May to June.
The Grimsvotn volcano lies beneath the ice of the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in south-east Iceland. The latest eruption is its most powerful eruption in 100 years.
The meltwater from the glacier on top of the volcano ran down into the crater, chilling the magma and then the pressure from underneath caused an explosion.
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