The Ferryland Iceberg of 2017: A Newfoundland Village Beside a Giant
The houses are the giveaway. Without them, the Ferryland iceberg could almost pass for a snowy mountain on the horizon. Put a row of homes ...
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Glaciers: Ice Landscapes & Photography
Discover glaciers through photography of mountain ice, frozen valleys and polar landscapes. Explore the stories in this collection, then follow related archives on icebergs, Antarctica and the wider world of snow and ice.
Svalbard Glacier Comparisons: What the Historic and 2002 Photographs Reveal
At first, the mountains make these photographs look familiar. Then your eye reaches the waterline, and the difference becomes clear: places...
Camping Beneath the Stars in the Mont Blanc Massif: An Alpine Photo Essay
The tents are small pools of light in a very large landscape. Around them, the Mont Blanc massif is all snow, dark rock and sharp outlines;...
I C E L A N D: Blue Racer Productions’ Aerial Journey
In just under two minutes, Blue Racer Productions’ I C E L A N D moves between glaciers, waterfalls, coast and volcanic ground. The aerial...
If Earth’s Land Ice Melted: What the Sea-Level Maps Mean
A map showing familiar coastlines disappearing beneath higher seas is a powerful way to visualise how much water is stored in ice. It is al...
Patagonia in Pictures: Mountains, Penguins and Glacier Fronts
Patagonia is easier to appreciate when you give its different landscapes room to be different. A turquoise lake below the Cuernos del Paine...
Jakub Polomski’s Iceland: Seven Aerial Perspectives
A familiar Iceland view can become a new picture when the camera rises. In these seven photographs by Jakub Polomski, a lighthouse becomes ...
Inside Langjökull: The Story of Iceland’s Man-Made Ice Tunnel
From outside, a glacier can look like a broad field of white. Inside the Langjökull tunnel, the photographs reveal something more layered: ...
Living Ice: Jakub Polomski’s Perito Moreno Calving Sequence
From a distance, Perito Moreno looks like an immense blue wall. Closer photographs reveal a rough skyline of ridges and fractures, and then...
Frosted Iceland: Lana Tannir’s Summer Ice Landscapes
Blue ice sits in water that reflects pink, violet and grey. In Lana Tannir’s Iceland photographs, the changing light is as important as the...
Briksdalsbreen: Glacier Views in Norway’s Briksdal Valley
Briksdalsbreen’s photographs bring several elements together: a tongue of blue ice, steep rock walls, water below and a green valley beyond...
Svalbard: Arctic Seasons, Settlements and Coastal Landscapes
Svalbard is often pictured as an endless white landscape. This gallery tells a more varied story: green lower slopes, colourful buildings, ...
Ruth Glacier and the Great Gorge: Ice in the Alaska Range
From a distance, the Ruth Glacier looks almost like a pale road through the Alaska Range. Closer views undo that impression: its surface is...
17 Latin American Landscapes from an Eight-Month Photography Journey
Ice, marble, salt, stone terraces and pale dunes: Hubert Ngan’s travel photographs move between subjects that feel wonderfully different fr...
Will Gadd’s Ice-Climbing Journey on Kilimanjaro
The ice looks almost architectural: a pale wall rising from dark, exposed ground, with a climber small against its face. Christian Pondella...
Vatnajökull and Its National Park: Icelandic Ice, Caves and Landscapes
Vatnajökull is not one blue cave or one viewpoint. Iceland’s great ice cap feeds a varied landscape of glacier tongues, lagoons and mountai...
Riverboarding on the Aletsch Glacier: Gailland and Janin Photographed by David Carlier
A blue channel cuts through pale glacier ice, and two small figures move within it. David Carlier’s photographs of Claude-Alain Gailland an...
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Nine Glacier Comparisons from Montana: Reading the Historic and Repeat Views
Two photographs from a similar viewpoint can make a changing landscape easier to understand. In Glacier National Park, historic and repeat ...
Cryoconite Holes: Small Habitats on a Glacier Surface
A glacier can look empty from a distance. Move closer to its surface and small dark pockets interrupt the pale ice. Cryoconite holes are a ...
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Alaska’s Changing Glaciers: A Guide to the Historic Photo Pairs
Alaska’s glacier photographs become especially informative when an older view is paired with a later image from the same position. Mountain...