Glaciers give way to new coasts

March 21, 2025

Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development of new coastlines and islands that are revealed as marine-terminating glaciers fall back from the sea.

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Cook, S.J. Glaciers give way to new coasts.
Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02275-4

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