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Many of these photos that were originally procured for military operations were able to be used for the benefit of science almost a century later.
The new findings are ubiquitous, even among Earth’s northernmost glaciers. New study documents how Greenland’s peripheral glaciers have changed from 1890 to 2022 Using satellite images and a unique archive of historical aerial photos, researchers compiled the most complete picture of Greenla
Over 1,000 peripheral glaciers and ice caps are disappearing twice as fast as they did during the 20th century.
Comparing photographs dating back to 1930 to those dating today revealed that Greenland went through a glacial retreat at an alarming rate. Read more here.
The comparison found that the rate of glacial retreat in Greenland during the 21st century has been twice as fast as the retreat in the 20th century.