glacier
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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
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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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Vocabulary lists containing glacier
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Geological Features
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