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Northern Glaciers are Retreating from the Water

Most marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere are shrinking; some have completely left the water.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and data courtesy of Kochtitzky, W., & Copland, L. (2022). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 8, 2022
Data acquired 2000 - 2020

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > ASTER