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In this image captured on July 20, 2019, the streaks, eddies, and whirls of the late summer blooms, mixed by winds and currents, are clearly…
Two satellite images show vegetation change from fog in two areas of the Namib desert. The left image shows the areas during periods of lower…
A small glacier in the Arctic region of Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, as photographed by NASA’s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX). This is one of the…
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a busy start. By the first week of June, Tropical Storm Arthur had already brushed North Carolina,…
A Three-dimensional cross-section of the hydrothermal system in the Chicxulub impact crater and its seafloor vents. The system has the potential for harboring microbial life.…
Mangroves in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Kerrylee Rogers/University of Wollongong Mangrove trees – valuable coastal ecosystems found in Florida and other warm climates – won’t survive…
(Click image for full view.) Artist’s impression of multi-wavelength emission above a thunderstorm based on data from ASIM. The high electric field associated with lightning…
Aerosol filter samplers probe the air over the Southern Ocean on the Australian Marine National Facility’s R/V Investigator. Credit: Kathryn Moore/Colorado State University An atmospheric…
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
A hiker walks along a road near Manitou Springs, Colorado, where an exposed outcrop shows a feature known as the “Great Unconformity.”Credit: Rebecca Flowers A…
MIT researchers find that extratropical storm tracks — the blue regions of storminess in the Earth’s middle latitudes — would change significantly with solar geoengineering…
The crystal structure of the feldspar anorthite under normal conditions (left) and the newly discovered high-pressure variant (right). Under normal conditions, the silicon and aluminum…
(Click image for full view.) Yudi Peak, Alaska on May 6, 2020. Before the landslide. After a cold winter, a shift in weather patterns has…
According to a new study, the mass extinction that occurred 215 million years ago was not caused by an asteroid hitting Earth or by climate…
An illustration of atmospheric inhomogeneities in a megacity. Credit: Helen Cawley The effect of nitric acid on aerosol particles in the atmosphere may offer an…
(Click image for full view.) This image of Abu Dhabi was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 27, 2019. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus…
Forests are becoming shorter and younger because of a range of factors, a new study says. PNNL-led researchers: Conditions that started decades ago are changing…
These animated images show AIM’s observations from the first week of the Arctic noctilucent cloud season, which began on May 17, 2020. The colors —…
A machine-learning technique developed at MIT combs through global ocean data to find commonalities between marine locations, based on interactions between phytoplankton species. Using this…