New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02282-5

As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000 and 2020, a total of 2,466 km of new coastline has been uncovered.