January 11, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Seawater has been cutting like a knife through A-68A, the enormous Antarctic iceberg drifting in the southern…
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The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual. Even as record snowfall has clobbered Japan’s western…
January 11, 2020 Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021, a moist, low-pressure weather system over the…
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away. Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and Bayou…
January 5, 2021 In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone…
August 2, 2019. Click image for high-resolution view. Rising above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk, the uninhabited Atlasov Island appears as a distinctive…
After two years of quiet, Kilauea, Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano, is erupting again. In the early days of the volcano’s latest eruption, water…
January 2, 2021 Popocatépetl volcano—the name is Aztec for “smoking mountain” — is one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes. The glacier-clad stratovolcano has been erupting…
1979 – 2019 Throughout 2020, the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas endured several notable weather and climate events. In spring, a persistent heatwave over Siberia…
December 20, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid…
November 12, 2020. Click image for high-resolution view. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the dragon is a powerful and sacred mythical creature. According to legend, Vietnam…
1985 – 2015 A recent study of Greenland’s ice sheet found that glaciers are retreating in nearly every sector of the island, while also undergoing…
December 13, 2020 When British explorer Ernest Shackleton and the crew of HMS Endurance lost their ship to crushing pack ice in the Weddell Sea…
Popularized by the studies and writings of Charles Darwin, the Galápagos Islands gained fame for their abundance of endemic plants and animals—species found nowhere else…
October 25, 2020 An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of a 30-kilometer (20-mile) long lagoon on the eastern shore of…
August 13, 2020 While passing over Oregon, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph of Newberry Volcano in the eastern Cascade…
August 15, 2020. (Click image for wide, high-resolution image.) If you accidentally stumbled upon the town of Huacachina, you might think it is a mirage.…
December 19 – 21, 2020 As winter moisture rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and makes snow on the Sierra Nevada range, it also can…
Though air and sea temperatures worldwide have been quite warm in 2020, the eastern and central Pacific Ocean recently grew milder with the return of…
October 27, 2020. Click image for high-resolution view. The Sea of Galilee in northern Israel—one of the lowest-lying bodies of water in the world—has long…