Glaciers

A satellite was launched into orbit to monitor melting glaciers.

Glaciers around the world are melting.

Scientific collections are assemblies of physical objects that are valuable for research and education — including drilling cores from the ocean floor and glaciers, seeds, space rocks, cells, mineral samples, fossils, and more.

The glaciers are melting.

Glaciers are melting because of global warming.

Glaciers are frozen rivers. They flow like rivers, only much slower.

In places such as Glacier National Park, the glaciers are melting and disappearing. The air is getting warmer, and less snow is falling during winter to renew the melted parts of the glaciers.

As more sea ice and glaciers melt, the global sea level rises.

During the last Ice Age, so much water was trapped in icy glaciers that the sea level dropped by as much as 120 meters.

Glaciers, land ice and icebergs are made of fresh water.