This natural-color image shows glaciers and glacial lakes in the Bhutan Himalaya on October 28, 2009.
Published Nov 1, 2009
Throughout the Himalayas, many glaciers are retreating and meltwater lakes are growing, putting people at risk downhill and downstream.
Published May 9, 2017
Over the past three decades, India’s Kokthang glacier has been retreating and a nearby lake has doubled in size.
Published Apr 26, 2019
After a warm spell in Kazakhstan, a glacial lake emptied abruptly and sent flood water rushing downstream.
Published Jul 29, 2015Image of the Day Heat Land Water Unique Imagery Human Presence Snow and Ice
Like an avalanche, a glacial outpouring can scour the hillside, washing away whole villages. But the slow disappearance of glaciers is a threat more subtle, though just as damaging.
Published Dec 23, 2016
Acquired December 25, 2009, this natural-color image shows a glacier slowly creeping down a valley to terminate in a frozen lake.
Published Apr 4, 2010
Several surging glaciers flow into the Shimshal River in a steep gorge in northern Pakistan — a recipe for a steady stream of floods in villages downstream.
Published Aug 9, 2017Image of the Day Land Water Floods Human Presence Snow and Ice
A range of glacier-capped mountains northwest of Lhasa, Tibet, casts long shadows in this winter-time image from the ASTER sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite.
Published Nov 12, 2009
Fine particles of pulverized rock absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that can give water a striking blue-green color.
Published May 20, 2019
Local authorities are watching closely after a fast-advancing glacier in northern Pakistan blocked a stream and created a temporary lake.
Published May 15, 2019
This scene on the remote, rugged Argentine/Chilean border in the far southern Andes Mountains offers numerous, dramatic examples of both erosional processes and features of ice and water.
Published Dec 24, 2000
In the early summer of 2011, the Medvezhiy Glacier in Tajikistan slid abruptly down its valley, creating a glacial lake.
Published Jul 30, 2011
This lake in northwest Russia is small compared to Lake Baikal, yet it still manages to make a stately appearance in satellite imagery.
Published Apr 4, 2020
One of the most famous glaciers in Patagonia periodically cuts off the major southern arm of Lago Argentino.
Published Aug 6, 2012
New Zealand’s longest glacier has shrunk in recent decades. Meanwhile, the lake at its terminus has grown.
Published Mar 26, 2017
Landsat satellites watched as glaciers in southeastern Alaska fell back by more than a kilometer over a 25-year period.
Published Aug 14, 2014
Where some of the park’s most notable glaciers end, a series of colorful glacial lakes begin.
Published Jun 11, 2019
The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
Published Jul 3, 2015
NIWA scientists stated that this glacier had retreated by 5 kilometers (about 3 miles) over the previous three decades. They also stated that New Zealand glaciers on the whole had lost 5.8 cubic kilometers (roughly 1.4 cubic miles) over the same time period.
Published Jan 27, 2008
The weather can often be fierce, but clouds cooperated for this expansive space-based view of the icefield.
Published Jun 28, 2017
Acquired July 1, 2009, this natural-color image shows Lake Minnewanka at the eastern tip of Banff National Park.
Published May 4, 2010
Over the past two decades, an Alaskan glacier has melted into a lake more than five times the size of Central Park.
Published May 23, 2019
The break up of lake ice in springtime unveils the turquoise waters of one of Asia’s largest lakes.
Published Apr 17, 2019
Natural processes and human-caused warming have combined to bring rapid change to a glacier in southeastern Alaska.
Published Aug 20, 2014
Although they move slowly, glaciers do move, and this movement alters the ice as it passes over land. Likewise, a moving glacier can carry with it evidence of geologic events it has witnessed. The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska bears multiple clues about its past.
Published Nov 8, 2006
