glacier

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In 1962, the program spotted a small wedge of lake forming on the eastern side of the Lhonak glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In 1985, Nepal’s Dig Tsho lake, in the Everest region, burst after part of a hanging glacier fell into it, destroying houses and infrastructure below.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Austria's largest glacier, the Pasterze in Carinthia, also continues to shrink.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The team also deployed seismic instruments that detected a series of glacier earthquakes during the period of rapid retreat.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

The glacier had been over these mountainsides, in the hundreds of thousands of years it had been grinding back and forth across the North.

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