Glaciers of Australia and Oceania: Past and Present
by Glaciers are powerful natural features that preserve evidence of Earth’s changing climate. These enormous masses of ice develop when snow accumulates over many years, compresses …
Category: Glaciers by Region
Glaciers of the Middle East: Do Any Still Exist?
Although glaciers are uncommon in the Middle East, they have not disappeared entirely. The most important surviving examples are associated with high mountain ranges in …
Glaciers of South Asia: India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan
High above the valleys of South Asia, where the air becomes thin and temperatures remain low, enormous rivers of ice move slowly through some of …
Glaciers of China and Tibet: Asia’s Water Towers
High in the mountains of Central and East Asia lies one of the planet’s most important freshwater regions: the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain …
Glaciers of Siberia: Remote and Little-Studied Ice
When people imagine Siberia, they often picture endless forests, frozen rivers, permafrost, and vast snow-covered plains. Yet hidden within this enormous region are mountain ranges …
Glaciers of the Arctic: Svalbard, Arctic Canada, and Russia
The Arctic is one of the most extraordinary environments on Earth. Far beyond the world’s major cities, a vast landscape of frozen seas, snow-covered mountains, …
Glaciers of the Karakoram: The Anomaly Region
The Karakoram is one of the most extraordinary mountain regions on Earth. Home to some of the planet’s highest peaks and longest glaciers outside the …
Glaciers of the Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains are among the most dramatic mountain systems on Earth. Stretching between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, this vast region forms …
Glaciers of the United States (Outside Alaska)
When people think about glaciers in the United States, Alaska usually comes to mind first. That makes sense: Alaska contains the overwhelming majority of the …
Glaciers of Papua New Guinea: Vanishing Tropical Ice
Papua New Guinea is famous for its tropical forests, extraordinary wildlife, volcanic landscapes, rivers, and coastal ecosystems. Yet the island of New Guinea also has …