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Watch the big polar glaciers moving for first time

Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling has launched the ice sheet outlet glacier velocity service using satellite data.

the rate of ice cap elevation change between 2010 and 2014 observed by the CryoSat satellite, which is overlaid onto an image acquired by the Sentinel-1A satellite. Red regions show where the ice surface has lowered due to ice loss. Image credit: CPOM/GRL

Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean

Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 – about one sixth of its original thickness – and that it is now flowing 25 times faster.