Two of the largest freshwater lakes in Turkey sit on the Anatolia Plateau.
Published Jan 26, 2020
Every winter, people in a high-altitude village on the Tibetan Plateau herd their sheep across the frozen lake toward two islands with better forage.
Published Mar 18, 2017
Fine particles of pulverized rock absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that can give water a striking blue-green color.
Published May 20, 2019
Throughout the Himalayas, many glaciers are retreating and meltwater lakes are growing, putting people at risk downhill and downstream.
Published May 9, 2017
Between 2002 and 2012, water levels dropped significantly in these manmade lakes in the Sahara.
Published Jul 16, 2012
Kelimutu volcano is home to the unique crater lakes known to change color unpredictably.
Published Jul 6, 2018
Researchers are using satellite data to measure lake water quality and clarity of the lakes in the Upper Midwest.
Published Mar 16, 2002
A rim of crystal salts surrounds Lake Qarhan, the largest salt lake playa in China and a significant source of minerals, including table salt and potassium for fertilizer.
Published Feb 2, 2014
This astronaut photograph features one of the largest of a series of ten mostly fresh water lakes in the Ounianga Basin in the heart of the Sahara Desert of northeastern Chad.
Published Nov 30, 2009
These images of the five Great Lakes show ice beginning to build up around the shores of each of the lakes, with snow on the ground across virtually the entire scene.
Published Jan 28, 2005
The spring thaw is underway in the Great Lakes region of North America.
Published Mar 27, 2019
Just a few months after an unusually warm winter with minimal ice, the surface temperatures of the lakes are now near or above records.
Published Jul 16, 2020
Long and short. Deep and shallow. Salty and fresh. Blue and brown. These are Africa’s Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa.
Published Jun 20, 2019
Snow cover lingered in the Great Lakes region on February 16, 2008. Against the backdrop of snowy ground appear the deep blue waters of the Great Lakes and nearby water bodies. In this wintertime shot, the lakes are relatively ice-free, except for Lake Erie.
Published Feb 20, 2008
Across the rippling, crevassed whitescape of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, two unusual shapes appear in this grayscale satellite image of the frozen continent.
Published Feb 4, 2006
Huge sheets of ice carved out the U-shaped valleys that hold New York’s Finger Lakes. When they retreated north about 10,000 years ago, glaciers left deposits of gravel that dammed streams and caused the depressions to become lakes.
Published Nov 30, 2013
Late August 2010 provided a rare satellite view of a cloudless summer day over the entire Great Lakes region of North America.
Published Sep 7, 2010
