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In a stark warning, scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have expressed deep ...
Its murmurs tend not to be signs of volcanic unrest but rather the signature of avalanches large enough to register on nearby seismic and infrasound instruments,” NASA said in its latest assessment of ...
Satellite images spanning over three decades reveal the disappearance of Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. The shocking ...
Capital Weather Gang New Earth-observing satellite beams back first images Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, offers ultra-detailed views of the Earth’s surface.
Koettlitz Glacier Landsat 8 helps reveal the hidden complexities of the Antarctic landscape. In this image, ice takes on different levels of blue with exposed rock and dirt appearing in yellow tones.
The Columbia Glacier, for example, was relatively stable when the first Landsat satellite launched 1972. But starting in the mid-1980s, the glacier’s front began retreating rapidly, and by 2019 ...
Scientists have long studied Alaska's fast-moving Columbia Glacier, a tidewater glacier that descends through the Chugach Mountains into Prince William Sound. Yet the river of ice continues to ...
It’s the world’s most vulnerable glacier, key to the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Yet we’re only now getting to know Thwaites.
Three Landsat satellite images show how Alaska's Big Johnstone Lake doubled in size from 1994 to 2018. According to glaciologist Mauri Pelto, the lake is growing as the nearby Excelsior Glacier ...
Scientists have created a time-lapse series of images of the retreat of an Alaskan glacier using NASA and U.S. Geological Survey Landsat data.