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Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Published March 24, 2014
Snow and ice cover the landscape around this basin of Lake Michigan.
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Ice stringers, Lake Michigan
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Published March 10, 2014
Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
Southern Patagonia Ice Field
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Published March 3, 2014
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
The Naked Mountain
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Published January 17, 2014
Mount Shasta is usually snow-capped. But this winter, it is a lot more brown than white, as drought deepens in California.
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New Snow for the New Year
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Published January 5, 2014
The first winter storm of 2014 dropped as much as 24 inches (61 centimeters) of snow in the hardest hit areas.
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Taylor Valley, Antarctica
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Published December 8, 2013
Home to Taylor Glacier, striking rock outcrops, and Blood Falls, this dry valley in Antarctica is one of the most remote and geologically exotic places on the planet.
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Upsala Glacier Retreat
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Published November 4, 2013
A photograph by an astronaut on the International Space Station shows a progressively shrinking glacier in the North Patagonian Icefield.
Everest Region, Nepal and China
Published July 9, 2013
Many southern-facing Himalayan glaciers—including Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest—have debris on their lower slopes.
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Worldwide Glaciers
Published July 1, 2013
Map of the global distribution of glaciers.
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Greenland / Antarctica Elevation
Published January 17, 2013
The shades on this map show how high above sea level are the land surfaces and ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.
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Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley
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Published September 13, 2009
These true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of glaciers flowing into a largely dry, linear valley in western Greenland on August 29, 2009.
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Lake Missoula
Published August 5, 2009
This false color Landsat 7 image was collected on June 1, 2001 using bands 2, 4 and 3.
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