When NASA’s Landsat 8satellite captured images in 2019, the glacier had dwindled to an area of less than 1 square kilometer, marking the complete loss of its identity as a ice mass.

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 ...

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 ...

In a stark warning, scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have expressed deep ...

The glacier has been retreating since the 1980s. Subscribe ... (TM) sensor on the Landsat 5 satellite. The false-color image from July 2014 (top image), ...

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, studies based on Landsat satellite images suggested that Pine Island Glacier was not only stable, it was actually gaining ice: 50 gigatonnes of ice per year ...

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.

Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, ... glacier and ice-shelf retreat and tropical deforestation,” said USGS acting director David Applegate in a news release. ...

Seventy years ago, Alaska's Excelsior Glacier stretched its cold fingers from a vast plain in the state's southern edge nearly all the way to the North Pacific Ocean.

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, studies based on Landsat satellite images suggested that Pine Island Glacier was not only stable, it was actually gaining ice: 50 gigatonnes of ice per year ...