glacier

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More than one billion people depend on mountain snow and glaciers as a critical source of freshwater.

From Science Daily

Researchers used satellite data and the physics of how Antarctica's glaciers move to work out what the continent might look like beneath the ice.

From BBC

Iron reaches the oceans mainly through airborne dust from deserts and dry regions, as well as through meltwater released by glaciers.

From Science Daily

Accelerated melting of glaciers in the wake of global warming has long been a major crisis facing India's Himalayan states and other countries in the region.

From BBC

As these sudden drainages took place, the glacier surface began to fracture in unexpected ways.

From Science Daily