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Antarctica Unpinned
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Published February 27, 2024
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s.
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A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland
Published August 30, 2022
A pair of Landsat images acquired 49 years apart reveals where the region’s glaciers and ice caps have retreated and narrowed.
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Changing Atlanta
Published January 18, 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. came of age in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.
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The Ups and Downs of Lake Chad
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Published November 25, 2017
The once-great lake has lost most of its water and now spans less than a tenth of the area it covered in the 1960s.
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A Clearer View of Silicon Valley
Published February 5, 2017
Two images acquired more than four decades apart show the development of the technology behind Landsat’s satellite sensors.
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Orlando, Florida: Four Decades of Development
Published July 23, 2015
Theme parks and other developments have turned Central Florida from swampland to the most visited tourist region of the United States.
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Turkish Glaciers Shrink By Half
Published July 2, 2015
Scientists use Landsat and commercial satellite data to quantify the losses in this mid-latitude glacier belt.
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