Tens of millions of small lakes dot frigid tundra landscapes in the Arctic—like the swampy Yana River Delta.
Published Jul 28, 2018
Synthetic Aperture Radar is offering scientists a new way to measure how much of the potent greenhouse gas is bubbling up from frozen Arctic lakes.
Published Jul 14, 2020
Throughout the Himalayas, many glaciers are retreating and meltwater lakes are growing, putting people at risk downhill and downstream.
Published May 9, 2017
Acquired June 15, 2009, this natural-color image shows Omulyakhskaya and Khromskaya Bays along the coast of Northern Siberia.
Published Aug 14, 2011
Researchers are using satellite data to measure lake water quality and clarity of the lakes in the Upper Midwest.
Published Mar 16, 2002
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
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
Kelimutu volcano is home to the unique crater lakes known to change color unpredictably.
Published Jul 6, 2018
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
Ice cover surpassed 80 percent for the first time in 20 years.
Published Feb 21, 2014
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
The Lena River fractures into myriad streams that fan out across the tundra and empty into the Arctic Ocean. During the short summer, it thaws into a wetland of tremendous ecological importance.
Published Jan 25, 2007
Acquired November 10, 2010, this natural-color image shows assorted lakes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in iridescent hues of blue, green, and teal.
Published Nov 26, 2010
The extent of ice on North America's Great Lakes is past its annual peak, but remains above the average maximum extent.
Published Mar 18, 2015
When it comes to the blue hue of meltwater lakes, darker means deeper; satellites can help scientists discover just how deep.
Published Sep 9, 2015
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
Between 2002 and 2012, water levels dropped significantly in these manmade lakes in the Sahara.
Published Jul 16, 2012
