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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.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Northern Glaciers are Retreating from 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