Arctic sea ice at minimum extent

Arctic sea ice extent likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 13, 2017. Credit: NSIDC. High-resolution image.Arctic sea ice extent has likely reached...

Not all glaciers in Antarctica have been affected by climate change

This image of Antarctica's western Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf was captured by the Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor on the NASA SeaStar...

Arctic sea ice maximum at record low for third straight year

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Researchers, ski safety experts develop new tool that maps potential avalanches

A researcher prepares to use a laser scanning (lidar) unit to scan snow depth at the Arapahoe Ski Basin Ski area in Keystone, Colorado....

NASA/USGS satellite provides global view of the speed of ice

This image acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows a close-up of the terminus of Alaska's Hubbard Glacier on July...

NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...

Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....

NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...

Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....

NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...

Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....

Sea ice hits record lows

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. NSIDC scientists...

U.S. and German researchers calculate individual contribution to climate change

This photo is a mosaic image of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, created by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) instrument aboard the NASA...

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