glacier

He takes time to let us hear what a glacier sounds like while showing the swirls of blue ice, but also what it looks like when glaciers collapse and vanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

He is best known for developing the "ice stupa" - an artificial cone-shaped glacier inspired by Buddhist stupas - that stores water during winter and releases it in late spring, when farmers need it most.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The fairways may be wide and forgiving, but hitting at the greens can feel like trying to land the ball on a glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

"The glacier, when you don't have snow, gives you two to three times more water," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

The great multiple glacier we are on feeds down into the valley from the west, and we are on its extreme eastern edge.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

After a mild winter, glaciers had less snow cover than usual at the end of April - and an unusually early heatwave the following month accelerated the melting of snow.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Ongoing measurements suggest this summer could become one of the worst ever recorded for melting Alpine glaciers, with more than a month of the season still to go.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Magnason’s family is inextricably linked with the environment — they’ve lived in Iceland for centuries and his grandparents were among the first to explore and research the glaciers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Icelandic sense, he tells us, was that people may pass, but the glaciers were eternal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

During the Ice Ages so much of the world’s water was frozen into glaciers that sea levels fell as much as four hundred feet.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann