Glacier Facts, Links and Information
Glaciers are global canaries that herald otherwise invisible changes to
global weather.
BBC Looks at European Glaciers .
 NASA's view of Icelandic Glaciers .
Glacier National Park in Montana.
Greenland's Glaciers 101 by Al Gore .
Greenland's Glaciers (MSNBC)
Himalayan Glaciers .
Larson B Ice Shelf .
As mountain glaciers disappear, cities at the foot of
these same mountains loose the melt water that used to
fill rivers and underground aquifer tables in summer.
Cities and irrigated farmland hundreds of miles distant,
without water, dry up and disappear, too. Anonymous
 Empty valley in Glacier National Park
where once a mighty glacier lived which
once spanned this whole vista.
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Revised: 7/21/2009
Email to: J. Warren Richardson .
"It's not enough to just note the fact that the glaciers are melting. The impact of that is not being
focused on at all."
Joseph Thsetan Gergan
WADIA Institute of Himalayan Glaciology

Ablation Zone:
That part of a glacier's surface over which ablation (wastage) exceeds accumulation each year.
The Larson B Ice Shelf breakup as seen from space.

A massive glacier in a sub-Antarctic island shrinks by a fifth