NASA Scientists Complete 1st Global Survey of Freshwater Fluctuation

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 04, 2021

To investigate humans' impact on freshwater resources, scientists have now conducted the first global accounting of fluctuating water levels in Earth's lakes and reservoirs - including ones previously too small to measure from space. The research, published March 3 in the journal Nature, relied on NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2), launched in September 2018.