Friedrich-Alexander Universität

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Peruvian glaciers have shrunk by 30 per cent since 2000

Team of FAU researchers investigates dramatic glacial melting.

Friedrich-Alexander Universität · 8 Oct 2019

21 Jan 2019

Using satellites to measure rates of ice mass loss in glaciers

If you compare historical photos of glaciers with those taken more recently, you can see that where there was formerly ice there is now very often nothing but rock. Geographers, however, are less interested in the area covered by a glacier, and more interested in its mass. Researchers from FAU have now investigated all glacial […]