The Bering Glacier is undergoing extensive ablation, or melt. Since the last surge, which ended in 1995, the glacier terminus has retreated approximately 0.4-0.5 km per year and the terminus position ...

Their findings explain why the glacier has been shrinking even when ... "Ocean temperature controls the observed frontal ablation," the team wrote in a study recently published in the journal ...

The Bering Glacier is the largest and longest glacier in continental North America. The largest temperate surging glacier on Earth, it has surged at least six times during the twentieth century, most ...