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The glaciers' retreats have changed the landscape significantly, widening lakes and producing new bodies of water, proglacial lakes, a growing pool of meltwater.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Pooling meltwater, for example, contributed to the Larsen B collapse.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Less snow can negatively affect water supplies by reducing meltwater from snowpack, especially in the Mountain West.
—Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
And what surprised me most was a finding that groundwater depletion now contributes even more to sea level rise than does the meltwater from ice on Greenland or Antarctica.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Pooling meltwater, for example, contributed to the Larsen B collapse.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Less snow can negatively affect water supplies by reducing meltwater from snowpack, especially in the Mountain West.
—Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
And what surprised me most was a finding that groundwater depletion now contributes even more to sea level rise than does the meltwater from ice on Greenland or Antarctica.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Meltwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meltwater. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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meltwater
noun
melt·wa·ter
ˈmelt-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: water that comes from the melting of ice and snow
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