National Parks Service
Glacier National Park - Sprague Creek Campground (Accessible Version)
Nestled among the Hemlocks and Cedars on the northeast shore of Lake McDonald is one of the smaller and more intimate of Glacier's campgrounds Sprague Creek. Its twenty-five sites and proximity to the lakeshore make this a prime spot for...
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: Melting Ice, Rising Seas
"Melting Ice, Rising Seas" is Episode 5 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's...
Ancient Lights Media
Poland
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Poland.
Curated Video
Lakes
This brief video introduces the viewer to how lakes are formed on our planet and the different types of lakes we might find on Earth.
NASA
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier Reacts to Changing Ocean Temperatures
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission uses ships and planes to measure how ocean temperatures affect Greenland's vast icy expanses. Jakobshavn Glacier, known in Greenlandic as Sermeq Kujalle, on Greenland's central western side,...
SWPictures
The Disappearing Glaciers: A Global Crisis
The video features Lonnie Thompson, a renowned glaciologist, and his international research team drilling into the ice core on the glacier of Vulcan in Peru. The video highlights the alarming rate at which glaciers are melting due to...
National Parks Service
Yosemite Nature Notes 16: Sky Islands
Throughout the Sierra Nevada, high flat plateaus are found at elevations around twelve and thirteen thousand feet. These isolated sky islands are the home to unique plant communities that are found nowhere else.
Mazz Media
Cryosphere
This live-action video program is about cryosphere. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Next Animation Studio
Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice: study
Several billion-years-old valleys on Mars may have been formed by glaciers and not flowing rivers, according to new study in Nature Geoscience.
NASA
Water in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland's Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held in a layer of crunchy, granular snow...
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 2: Phanerozoic Eon – Paleozoic Era
We just cruised through the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic eons. That brings us all the way to the Phanerozoic eon, which is the one we are still living in today. This is split up into the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, so...
NASA
NASA Views Laser Landscapes of Helheim Glacier
What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could compare that view with data from one, two, even 20 years ago? NASA airborne campaigns like Operation IceBridge have been...
NASA
Massive Crater Discovered Under Greenland Ice
In a remote area of northwest Greenland, an international team of scientists has made a stunning discovery, buried beneath a kilometer of ice. It’s a meteor impact crater, 300 meters deep and bigger than Paris or the Beltway around...
NASA
Explore with Landsat: Where Would You Go?
With 50 years of Landsat data tracking our changing planet, scientists study how we're all #ConnectedByEarth. But we wonder - what will the next generation explore? Curious kids can make a video to ask Landsat scientists questions about...
NASA
Scientists Bury GPS in Antarctic Ice to Measure Effects of Tides
NASA scientists and ice sheet modelers, Ryan Walker and Christine Dow, traveled to a remote location on the coast of Antarctic to investigate how tides affect the movement and stability of the Nansen Ice Shelf, a 695-mile extension of...
NASA
NASA | Measuring Elevation Changes on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Since the late 1970's, NASA has been monitoring changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Recent analysis of data from both the ICESat satellite and an ongoing airborne mission called Operation IceBridge show us how the surface elevation of...
Curated Video
Glaciar
Este programa de video de accion en vivo es sobre la palabra glaciar. El programa esta disenado para reforzar y apoyar la comprension y retencion del estudiante de la palabra mediante el uso de secuencias de video, fotografias, diagramas...
NASA
NASA | Warm Ocean Melting Pine Island Glacier
For five years an international team of experts, led by NASA emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, planned and orchestrated a mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of...
NASA
NASA | North to South
Earth's polar regions: the "canary in the coal mine" of global climate change. The time to learn more is now. Two years of intensive research and education focused on the Earth's poles began March 1, 2007 with the launch of the...
NASA
NASA | Earth's Climate Checkup: Operation IceBridge Monitors Arctic
NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact,...
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 4: Phanerozoic Eon – Cenozoic Era
We are almost through the Phanerozoic eon! After the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras, we get to the Cenozoic era, which is the one we are still living in today. This is the age of mammals, which came to dominate the Earth, and here we also...
Next Animation Studio
Greenland’s glacier loss is accelerating
A new study using satellite images finds that Greenland’s glacier melt is accelerating.
NASA
For 15 Years, GRACE Tracked Freshwater Movements Around the World
Between 2002 and 2016, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) tracked the movement of freshwater around the planet. NASA scientists used GRACE data to identify regional trends of freshwater movement, and combined that...
NASA
Two New Satellites Set to Study One of Earth's Most Critically Changing Regions
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns. GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use radically...