glacier
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Naturally, it helps that you can never tire of all the air-crisped glacier imagery, captured digitally and in 16mm.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Shortly afterward, lawmakers amended the country's glacier protection law to relax restrictions on mining in areas of permafrost, despite fears the new law could endanger crucial water supplies.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
By 2011, landfast sea ice in the Larsen B embayment near Hektoria's terminus had expanded enough to provide temporary support, allowing the glacier to slowly advance once again.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Between blocks of talks, attendees partake in activities from the glacier show-and-tell to an iNaturalist BioBlitz in Stanley Park to a field trip to the local Renaissance faire.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing glacier
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Geological Features
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