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Glacier Change Threatens Andes Communities

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.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published December 23, 2016
Data acquired July 30, 1986 - May 8, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI