Ice and Glaciers

The one glacier up in Greenland that puts more ice into the global ocean than all the other glaciers in the northern hemisphere combined is the Ilulissat Glacier.

While glaciers that cover more than five square kilometers have lost 12 of their mass, those under one square kilometer have lost 38 percent. Applying the overall ratio of mass lost to area covered, this means that the smallest (and most numerous) Himalayan glaciers lost up to 57 of their mass between 1960 and 2004.

The Himalayan glaciers have not stopped losing mass, although they are losing it at a somewhat slower rate than before. Evidence collected on 466 glaciers by the Indian Space Applications Center from 1962 to 2004 shows a 21 loss of glacier area and a 30.8 of glacier volume.

They actually have these buses that drive up and over the lateral moraine and drop people off on the surface of the glacier.

Brown Glacier, Heard Island, had retreated by 50 metres over three years, with the lower slopes of the glacier having lost as much as 11 metres in thickness, while Collins Glacier, King George Island, retreated by some 200 metres between 1987 and 2005.

And once again, it's this invitation that asks people to lay down on the glacier and give it a hug.

As the Arctic melts The rush to exploit its resources is starting Nobody will listen to her But they will listen to you

That's the retreat of this glacier.

The glaciers are actually leaving us.

We might wind up there yet, too, chasing Fry over the old glacier!

They give birth inside the ice, and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the ice.

We're inundated with news all the time that the sea ice is disappearing and it's at its lowest level.

One of my favorite glaciers, the Sólheimajökull.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

This is a piece of multi year ice that's 12 years old.

This is pitched on a glacier at 17,500 feet.

During both flights a near real time analysis was carried out over glaciers to determine the accumulation and ablation areas and estimate glacier mass balance, important parameters for climate research and hydrology.

We have reason to be afraid of melting ice caps.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, forcing glaciers and Arctic ice to retreat.

And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human glacier relations.

A tremendous amount of ice has been let out of these valleys as it's retreated and deflated, gone back up valley.

And all the way along the glacier we saw these big pools of melting ice.

But this glacier caved into the water and a seal got on it.

I have swum in front of glaciers which have retreated so much.

When I meet a glacier for the very first time, what do I do?

I really just don't even know how to say hello.

Glaciers are very important for the life on earth.

Earth sciences and glaciology and global change

And these cameras are positioned on rocks on the sides of the glaciers, and they look in on the glacier from permanent, bedrock positions, and they watch the evolution of the landscape.

If you use wind, you guarantee ice will last.

We're now at the Columbia Glacier in Alaska.

Oceans come and go. Mountains come and go. Glaciers come and go.

And we wanted to find out and we see all kinds of glacial features on it.

This lake has been formed in the last couple of years because of the melting of the glacier.

And to the right hand side of us was this great Khumbu Glacier.

In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global sea level rise.

And there's a volcano behind, which has glaciers at the very top.

95 percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle associated and connected to sea ice.

Notable studies on glaciology were also reported by several Parties.

Okay. We had a team out watching this glacier, and we recorded the biggest calving event that's ever been put on film.

I spent time skiing across the sea ice for weeks at a time in the high Arctic.

This glacier has doubled its flow speed in the past 15 years.

These bears are already showing signs of the stress of disappearing ice.