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glacier

[glay-sher] / ˈgleɪ ʃər /
NOUN
mountain of ice, snow
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A study has found that climate change had contributed to the glacier collapse that unleashed devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sputnik Planitia is a vast glacier made largely of frozen nitrogen and is bigger than Texas and Oklahoma combined.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Not all the forces driving glacier loss are beyond the region's control.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Scientists from the World Weather Attribution have described the event as a "compound crisis" in which local geological instability combined with long-term warming has led to glacier retreat and permafrost thaw.

From Barron's

He might discover a new river or an old mountain or a glacier of dubious age.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

She says the tropical glaciers in Papua are unique because they are separated from other glacier systems by thousands of kilometres.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Because the area had no natural rock outcrops, any large stones found there would have had to arrive from somewhere else, potentially carried by glaciers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

In 2025 -- one of the warmest years on record -- glaciers also shrank across all regions, even as groundwater levels in many parts of the world are in multi-year decline, it found.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Himalayas are approaching a dangerous threshold as glaciers melt faster, glacial lakes grow more unstable and the mountains face a widening gap in monitoring, according to new research.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Brugman was a glaciologist, a scientist who studied the movement of glaciers.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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