tidewater
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As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
When a tidewater glacier thins enough, it can lift off the seabed and begin floating on the ocean surface.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
Another endangered fish, northern tidewater gobies, were rescued from the same watershed shortly before the steelhead were liberated.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025
Their mission: Save the lives of northern tidewater gobies, a tiny endangered fish.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
He started plodding north from tidewater in February, but his enthusiasm fizzled on the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier, still thirty miles from the peak, so he aborted the attempt and retreated to Talkeetna.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
