New islands are being left behind by rapidly retreating Arctic glaciers

There are three new islands in the thawing Arctic, each left behind by melting glaciers. 

As warming masses of ice retreat away from the rugged outcroppings at the edge of the Devon Ice Cap in the Canadian Arctic, glaciologist Mauri Pelto recently spotted on satellite images the “release,” or freeing, of these three new islands, and posted the images online. This geographic transformation is a continuation of the accelerating change now unfolding in the Arctic, where things are warming over twice as fast as the rest of the planet — and in some places even faster.

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