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Part of Zongo Glacier on Bolivia’s Huayna Potosí, about 25 kilometers north of La Paz, as seen in January 2010
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Amazon Fires Contribute to Andean Glacier Melting

by Michael Allen 13 January 202016 July 2025

New research finds that black carbon emissions produced by fires in the Amazon cause glaciers in the Andes to absorb more sunlight and melt more.

Glacial cliff towers above an icy sea
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Controlled Explosions Pave the Way for Thwaites Glacier Research

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 10 January 202013 December 2021

Scientists detonate explosives in West Texas to prepare for fieldwork in West Antarctica.

Aerial photo of the white and blue ice of the Thwaites ice shelf
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What Lies Beneath Is Important for Ice Sheets

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 19 December 201926 January 2023

New research reconstructing the topography of Antarctica shows that the continent has 25% less land above sea level than when ice first started to accumulate 34 million years ago.

A pool of meltwater on Greenland’s ice sheet
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A New Source of Sea Level Rise from Greenland: Ice Slabs

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 10 December 201911 January 2022

Runoff from the Greenland ice sheet’s high elevations could double by 2100, thanks to solid layers of ice hiding just beneath the surface.

A woman outfitted in climbing gear stands on a dirty glacier.
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Podcast: A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 18 November 201928 October 2022

The radioactive remains of nuclear testing during the Cold War and from nuclear disasters like Chernobyl are still with us and can be found in some of the remotest glaciers on Earth.

Aerial images of Breiðamerkurjökull glacial tongue taken in 1989 (top) and 2019 (bottom)
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Drones Capture Iceland’s Shrinking Glaciers

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 8 November 201911 January 2022

Photographs of Iceland’s southern glaciers show pools of water where walls of ice once stood.

Aerial images of Argentière glacier taken in 1919 and 2019
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Europe’s Mightiest Glaciers Are Melting

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 21 October 201928 July 2022

Here’s what a century of ice melt looks like on the Alps’ highest peak.

Pools of bright blue water amid ice
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Freshwater Pools Show Antarctica Is More Vulnerable Than We Thought

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 October 201927 March 2023

East Antarctica’s lakes cluster in patterns similar to those on Greenland’s ice sheet, which is melting rapidly.

The Ross Ice Shelf
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Drilling into the Past to Predict the Future

by D. Williams 17 September 201917 March 2023

Climate change is at the center of a remarkable international drilling operation into Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.

Edge of a glacier near the ocean
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Vintage Radar Film Tracks What’s Beneath Antarctic Ice

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 16 September 20199 August 2022

The newly digitized data double the timescale of ice-penetrating radar monitoring in some of the fastest changing areas of Antarctica.

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