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Preservation Of North Cascade Glaciers
Recipe for Mountain Glacier Formation: Recent glacier thinning due primarily to warm summers has exposed new bedrock knobs on upper portions of Deming, Easton and Squak Glacier on Mounty Baker,...
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Mount Everest Region High Winter Glacier Snow Lines in 2024 and 2025.
The snow line on Mount Everest Region glaciers on Jan. 28, 2025 indicated by yellow dots on the Landsat image. Note t Nup La-5900 m is snow free. The average snow line is 6100 m, 150 m higher than on...
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Burroughs Glacier, Alaska Vanishing
Burroughs Glacier in 1986 and 2024 Landsat images. The red arrow marks terminus in 1986 and yellow arrows the 2024 terminus. Yellow dots mark the outline of the glacier in 2022. Glacier area declined...
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Ice Worm Glacier Disappears in 2023, North Cascade Range, WA
Ice Worm Glacier from the same location in 1986 and 2023, Bill Prater in 1986 image. Ice Worm Glacier is an east-facing cirque glacier on the east flank of Mount Daniel, WA. Mount Daniel is on the...
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Darwin Glacier, Sierra Nevada, California No Longer a Surviving Glacier
Darwin Glacier on 8-29-2022 in Sentinel False Color image with area reduced to 0.026 km2. No longer a glacier there is still relict ice clinging to the slope, in the next six weeks further melt...
View ArticleWorld Day For Glaciers March 3 2025
March 21, 2025, the “World Day for Glaciers”, is part of the UN International Year for Glaciers’ Preservation.” Rapid and accelerating glacier loss this century led to this day. In 2023 and 2024 for...
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Central Andes Glaciers of Chile and Argentina Nearly Snow Free Again in 2025
Alto and Baja del Plomo Glacier in false color Sentinel image from 3-17-2025, expanding bedrock areas amidst upper Baja del Plomo Glacier. For an alpine glacier to thrive it must remain 50-60%...
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Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru 25% Snow Cover Retained 2024
Quelccaya Ice Cap in 2013 and 2024 Landsat images illustrating snow line at 5600 m in 2024 and retreat leading to lake expansion at Point A-E from 2013 to 2024. Quelccaya Ice Cap (QIC) is located in...
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North Cascade Glacier Accumulation Season 2025 and Forecast Outlook
As April ends there is a sharp snowline ranging from 1200 m at Mount Baker to 1400 m at Cascade Pass. Above 1500 m the melt season is just getting started. As the accumulation season comes to an end...
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Berg Lake, Alaska Evolution Driven by Steller Glacier Retreat
Berg Lake in 2002 and 2024 Lands at images. Red arrows illustrate 2002 margin, and yellow dots the 2024 margin after a retreat. Yellow arrows indicate the gorge that drained the lake periodically from...
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Öræfajökull and Vatnajökull, Iceland May High May 2025 Snow Line
A view across Jokulsarlon Lagoon toward Fjalljökull and Hrutarjökull of the Öræfajökull Ice Cap on May 25 above. Below, is Skalafellsjokull of Vatnajökull Ice cap on May 26 with Jill and Kevin Duffy...
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Novatak Glacier, Alaska Rifting in 2025 Reveals Forthcoming Rapid Lake...
A network of extensive rifts have developed since 2023, yellow arrows. The fringing proglacial lake has not expanded. Rifting indicates uplift from partially floating glacier area. Ice flow in the...
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