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New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – some spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen ...
Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...
Glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska and in Asia’s High Mountain region are melting so fast that the changes can be seen from space, with the shrinkage now measured in years rather than decades. Just ...
Wired has a set of gorgeous photos of glaciers taken by astronauts and satellites, including this one of Mount Rainier. “On its eastern slope,” Wired writes, Rainier “hosts Emmons Glacier ...
Glaciers are masses of ice which move over land, carving out the landscape. Because they are sensitive to any changes in climate, they are indicators of global warming. Here we look at images of ...
The four glaciers — Nukapingwa, Arklio, Perkeo, and Midget (from left to right in the image) — are each around 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) long and around 2,000 feet (600 meters) wide on average.
Meltwater pools on the surface of Petermann Glacier in Greenland as seen by Landsat in June 2019. (Image credit: NASA/USGS) Landsat images of glaciers photographed between 1972 and 2019 allowed ...
Glacier Hazards From Space. By Andreas Kääb; Posted 07.01.05; NOVA scienceNOW; Outbursts of glacier lakes, ice break-offs and subsequent avalanches, and related disasters can kill ...
Part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which lies along the coast of southeast Alaska, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Covering over […] ...
Greenland’s Glaciers Are Hemorrhaging Ice, Best Seen By Photos from Space Satellites snap pictures of Greenland’s glaciers, which a new study shows are vanishing at an accelerated pace ...
Fagre’s team does most of its glacier monitoring on the ground, using photography, tree ring studies and snow measurements. Tracking all 1,583 square miles of the park would be easier from space ...
Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island's fjords ...