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Today’s Glacial Retreat is a Recent Phenomenon

Alpine glaciers around the world were advancing as recently as 1990. Now they’re melting fast.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Today’s Glacial Retreat is a Recent Phenomenon.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story and photographs by Karin Kirk, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Published October 24, 2024
Data acquired August 28, 1990 - August 17, 2024

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Landsat 9 > OLI-2; Photograph