Photographed from space, glaciers are among the best indicators of global warming used by scientists: their melting is indeed more apparent than ever.

Dorothy Hall, a scientist from NASA and a team of international researchers have used several satellites to record the significant changes seen among different European glaciers, Icelandic or U.S. (Alaska).

For some, the addition of other data shows not only the loss of area, working through the edges of the ice formation, but also a loss of ice thickness near the center.

For most scientists, the rapid melting of glaciers observed around the globe confirms that our planet is warming.

Bear Glacier in Alaska

The Emmons Glacier on Mount Rainier, Washington

The field of ice Heiltsuk in British Columbia, Canada

Helheim Glacier, Greenland

Gray Glacier in Chile